Sokuon

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The sokuon ( Japanese 促 音 , literally "Eillaut", also called tsumaru oto ( つ ま る 音 ), "stuffing") denotes the gemination or the occurrence of a long consonant in the Japanese language . In the Rōmaji transcription it is usually represented by a double consonant letter.

It is a sign of Japanese writing words that a smaller set tsu in Hiragana or Katakana equivalent and therefore colloquially called chiisai tsu , "small tsu" is called. For comparison:

Tsu Chiisai tsu
Hiragana つ っ
Katakana ツ ッ

The sokuon is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by a doubled consonant (symbol ":") or a small hook similar to an apostrophe.

Example:

  • 待 っ て matte , in German “Wait a minute”. 待 is a kanji that represents the verb 待 つ matsu with the meaning “wait”, and matte is the participle. By connecting the て te , the つ tsu is reduced from matsu to the sokuon, so that the "double consonant" arising in the participle is also represented.
  • Pocky , a Japanese snack, is written in katakanaポ ッ キ ー :ポ po ,ッ sokuon ,キ ki ,ー chōon . The legend according to the Hepburn system would then be pokkī .

The "small tsu" is also used to represent a voiceless glottal plosive at the end of a sentence or (more unusual and much less often) before a consonant , as occurs in spoken language when aroused or angry. This is shown with a tick similar to the question mark: [ʔ].

In Japanese computer input systems (IME), the "small tsu" is automatically inserted when a consonant is entered twice. mattetherefore results 待って. A single small tsu can be written with xtu, ltuor , depending on the IME ltsu.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Japanese name of a character with the German name Urgl from the Pokémon franchise is ウ ッ ウ ; the pronunciation is clear here: Nintendo Direct dated September 5, 2019 (23 min 48 s) (accessed September 5, 2019).