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| Transliteration | tsu, tu | ||
| Translit. withdakuten | zu, dzu, du | ||
| Hiragana origin | 川 | ||
| Katakana origin | 川 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 都 豆 通 追 川 津 | ||
| Voiced man'yōgana | 豆 頭 弩 | ||
| Spelling kana | つるかめのツ (Tsurukame no "tsu") | ||
| Unicode | U+3064, U+30C4 | ||
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Tsu (hiragana: つ,katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanesekana, each of which represents onemora. Both are phonemically/tɯ/, reflected in theNihon-shiki andKunrei-shiki Romanizationtu, although forphonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is[t͡sɯᵝ]ⓘ, reflected in theHepburn romanizationtsu.
The smallkana っ/ッ, known assokuon, are identical but somewhat smaller. They are mainly used to indicate consonantgemination and commonly used at the end of lines of dialogue infictional works as a symbol for aglottal stop.
Thedakuten forms づ, ヅ, usually pronounced the same as the dakuten forms of thesu kana in most dialects (seeyotsugana), are uncommon. They are primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (seerendaku), and they can never begin a word.
In theAinu language, it can be written with ahandakuten (which can be entered into a computer as either one character (ツ゚) or two combined characters (ツ゜) to represent the sound[tu͍], which is interchangeable with the katakana ト゚.
The katakana form has become popular as anemoticon in theWestern world due to its resemblance to a smiling face and as part of a "shrug"emoticon, known alternatively asShruggie, rendered as: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .[1][2]
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normalts- (た行ta-gyō) | tsu | つ | ツ |
| tsuu, tswu tsū | つう, つぅ つー | ツウ, ツゥ ツー | |
| Additiondakutend/z- (だ行da-gyō) | zu, dzu | づ | ヅ |
| zuu, zwu zū, dzū | づう, づぅ づー | ヅウ, ヅゥ ヅー |
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| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| つるかめのツ Tsurukame no "Tsu" | ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1345 Japanese Braille |
| つ / ツ inJapanese Braille | ||||||||
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| っ / ッ sokuon | つ / ツ tsu | づ / ヅ zu/du | つう / ツー tsū | づう / ヅー zū/dū | Other kana based onBraille つ | |||
| ちゅ / チュ chu | ぢゅ / ヂュ ju/dyu | ちゅう / チュー chū | ぢゅう / ヂュー jū/dyū | |||||
| Preview | つ | ツ | ツ | っ | ッ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER TU | KATAKANA LETTER TU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TU | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL TU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TU | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12388 | U+3064 | 12484 | U+30C4 | 65410 | U+FF82 | 12387 | U+3063 | 12483 | U+30C3 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 164 | E3 81 A4 | 227 131 132 | E3 83 84 | 239 190 130 | EF BE 82 | 227 129 163 | E3 81 A3 | 227 131 131 | E3 83 83 |
| Numeric character reference | つ | つ | ツ | ツ | ツ | ツ | っ | っ | ッ | ッ |
| Shift JIS[3] | 130 194 | 82 C2 | 131 99 | 83 63 | 194 | C2 | 130 193 | 82 C1 | 131 98 | 83 62 |
| EUC-JP[4] | 164 196 | A4 C4 | 165 196 | A5 C4 | 142 194 | 8E C2 | 164 195 | A4 C3 | 165 195 | A5 C3 |
| GB 18030 | 164 196 | A4 C4 | 165 196 | A5 C4 | 132 49 153 48 | 84 31 99 30 | 164 195 | A4 C3 | 165 195 | A5 C3 |
| EUC-KR[5] /UHC[6] | 170 196 | AA C4 | 171 196 | AB C4 | 170 195 | AA C3 | 171 195 | AB C3 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 200 | C6 C8 | 199 92 | C7 5C | 198 199 | C6 C7 | 199 91 | C7 5B | ||
| Big5 (ETEN /HKSCS)[8] | 199 75 | C7 4B | 199 192 | C7 C0 | 199 74 | C7 4A | 199 191 | C7 BF | ||
| Preview | ッ | づ | ヅ | ツ゚ | ㋡ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TU | HIRAGANA LETTER DU | KATAKANA LETTER DU | KATAKANA LETTER AINU TU[9] | CIRCLED KATAKANA TU | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 65391 | U+FF6F | 12389 | U+3065 | 12485 | U+30C5 | 12484 12442 | U+30C4+309A | 13025 | U+32E1 |
| UTF-8 | 239 189 175 | EF BD AF | 227 129 165 | E3 81 A5 | 227 131 133 | E3 83 85 | 227 131 132 227 130 154 | E3 83 84 E3 82 9A | 227 139 161 | E3 8B A1 |
| GB 18030 | 132 49 151 49 | 84 31 97 31 | 164 197 | A4 C5 | 165 197 | A5 C5 | 165 196 129 57 167 50 | A5 C4 81 39 A7 32 | 129 57 211 51 | 81 39 D3 33 |
| Numeric character reference | ッ | ッ | づ | づ | ヅ | ヅ | ツ | ツ | ㋡ | ㋡ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[3] | 175 | AF | 130 195 | 82 C3 | 131 100 | 83 64 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[10] | 175 | AF | 130 195 | 82 C3 | 131 100 | 83 64 | 131 157 | 83 9D | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 142 175 | 8E AF | 164 197 | A4 C5 | 165 197 | A5 C5 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[11] | 142 175 | 8E AF | 164 197 | A4 C5 | 165 197 | A5 C5 | 165 253 | A5 FD | ||
| EUC-KR[5] /UHC[6] | 170 197 | AA C5 | 171 197 | AB C5 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 201 | C6 C9 | 199 93 | C7 5D | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN /HKSCS)[8] | 199 76 | C7 4C | 199 193 | C7 C1 | ||||||
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