I read your question "Do Japanese people see [tsu] as a smiling face" and read over the question several times before I got it. And I'm not a native Japanese reader (or speaker). Just like your ت (which sort of looks like a smiling face to me) and the German ü (to Japanese eyes, say), the Japanese ツ doesn't look like a smiling face to any ...

The small っ (tsu) is usually used before a consonant to indicate gemination, less technically known as doubled consonants, which is how they are transliterated in romaji. I have seen it at the end of some of what I call "vocal noises" where I interpreted it as possibly a glottal stop.

づ represented [du] (and just like [tu] became [tsu] it became [dzu]) じ represented [zi] (and just like [si] became [ɕi] it became [ʑi]). ぢ represented [di] (and just like [ti] became [tɕi] it became [dʑi]). While the exact pronunciation of these 4 letters have changed since classical Japanese, they essentially remained distinct until ...

So it holds true to adding dakuten to ち (chi) and つ (tsu). The issue arises because the characters resulting from adding a dakuten to "chi" and "tsu," (ぢ and づ respectively) are much more difficult to approximate with English phonemes. Try saying ち or つ while using your vocal cords and you'll get something like "dji" and "dzu."

The chiisai-tsu (small tsu) should be covered by any basic hiragana book, a good alternative is wikipedia's hiragana article. From the writing section: From the writing section: A small tsu っ, called a sokuon, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled).

When and how did small-tsu come to represent consonant gemination. When and how did consonant gemination (as represented by small-tsu) come to be in Japanese. (For those who don't know the term: gemination simply means doubling of sounds, usually consonants. It's easy to get the sense once you see it comes from the same Latin root as Gemini).

A small tsu (sokuon) geminates (doubles) the following consonant. In native vocabulary, only unvoiced consonants can be geminated. This includes the さ, た, か, and ぱ rows. A double n as in おんな is not really pronounced the same way as ＊おっな would be if it were a word.

2017年2月5日 · It's easy once you get the difference between シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) For these, it's easy to remember because of how the hiragana versions are written. し is written from the top, to bottom, to right. And thus, the katakana version is written left to right, and has a …

2024年11月28日 · The change of "tu" to "tsu" can be attributed to stop/affricate system which refers to the tripartite contrast of alveolar stop [t], affricate [ts] and [t∫ ] in Modern Japanese. This development of alveolar stops and affricates goes well back to Late Old Japanese (the history is detailed in reference 1).

2021年7月13日 · In English it's normal for the sentence to start with a capital letter. In German also. Additionally, there are classes of words that are written in German with an initial capital letter.