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つ (tu/tsu) – Hiragana


Pronunciation

– Pronounced as the Japanese ‘tsu’. You can pronounce this by saying the first portion – ‘tsu’ from ‘tsunami’.

About

つ, in hiragana, or ツ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent ‘tu’ in the Japanese alphabet although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is tsu.

Mnemonics

Mnemonic 1: This symbol shows a picture of a huge wave, a tsunami.

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