tsu
hiragana
japanese hiragana tsu		 katakana
japanese katakana tsu
transliterationtsu, tu
translit. with dakutenzu, 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")
unicodeU+3064, U+30C4
braille⠝

Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [t͡sɯᵝ] ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.

The small kana っ/ッ, known as sokuon, are identical but somewhat smaller. They are mainly used to indicate consonant gemination and commonly used at the end of lines of dialogue in fictional works as a symbol for a glottal stop.

The dakuten forms づ, ヅ, pronounced the same as the dakuten forms of the su kana in most dialects (see yotsugana), are uncommon. They are primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (see rendaku), and they can never begin a word.

In the Ainu language, it can be written with a handakuten (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 an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face and as part of a "shrug" emoticon, known alternatively as Shruggie, rendered as:  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .[1][2]

Forms Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal ts-
(た行 ta-gyō)		 tsu つ ツ
tsuu, tswu
tsū		 つう, つぅ
つー		 ツウ, ツゥ
ツー
Addition dakuten d/z-
(だ行 da-gyō)		 zu づ ヅ
zuu, zwu
zū		 づう, づぅ
づー		 ヅウ, ヅゥ
ヅー
Other additional forms
Form A (ts-)
Romaji Hiragana Katakana
tsa, tswa つぁ ツァ
tswa つゎ ツヮ
tsi, tswi, tsyi つぃ ツィ
(tswu) (つぅ) (ツゥ)
tse, tswe つぇ ツェ
tso, tswo つぉ ツォ
tsya つゃ ツャ
tsyu つゅ ツュ
tsye つぃぇ ツィェ
tsyo つょ ツョ
Form B (zw-/zy-)
Romaji Hiragana Katakana
zwa づぁ ヅァ
づゎ ヅヮ
zi, zwi, zyi づぃ ヅィ
(zwu) (づぅ) (ヅゥ)
zwe づぇ ヅェ
zwo づぉ ヅォ
zya づゃ ヅャ
zyu づゅ ヅュ
zye づぃぇ ヅィェ
zyo づょ ヅョ
  • ヅァ, ヅェ and ヅォ are used in gairaigos; these pronunciations are not same as ズァ (zwa), ズェ (zwe) and ズォ (zwo).

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing つ
Stroke order in writing つ
Stroke order in writing ツ
Stroke order in writing ツ
Stroke order in writing つ
Stroke order in writing ツ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
つ / ツ in Japanese Braille
っ / ッ
sokuon		つ / ツ
tsu		づ / ヅ
zu/du		つう / ツー
tsū		づう / ヅー
zū/dū		Other kana based on Braille 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
⠂ (braille pattern dots-2) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Previewつツﾂっッ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER TU KATAKANA LETTER TU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TU HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL TU KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TU
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12388U+306412484U+30C465410U+FF8212387U+306312483U+30C3
UTF-8227 129 164E3 81 A4227 131 132E3 83 84239 190 130EF BE 82227 129 163E3 81 A3227 131 131E3 83 83
Numeric character referenceつつツツﾂﾂっっッッ
Shift JIS[3]130 19482 C2131 9983 63194C2130 19382 C1131 9883 62
EUC-JP[4]164 196A4 C4165 196A5 C4142 1948E C2164 195A4 C3165 195A5 C3
GB 18030164 196A4 C4165 196A5 C4132 49 153 4884 31 99 30164 195A4 C3165 195A5 C3
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 196AA C4171 196AB C4170 195AA C3171 195AB C3
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 200C6 C8199 92C7 5C198 199C6 C7199 91C7 5B
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8]199 75C7 4B199 192C7 C0199 74C7 4A199 191C7 BF
Character information
Previewｯづヅツ゚㋡
Unicode name HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TU HIRAGANA LETTER DU KATAKANA LETTER DU KATAKANA LETTER AINU TU[9] CIRCLED KATAKANA TU
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode65391U+FF6F12389U+306512485U+30C512484 12442U+30C4+309A13025U+32E1
UTF-8239 189 175EF BD AF227 129 165E3 81 A5227 131 133E3 83 85227 131 132 227 130 154E3 83 84 E3 82 9A227 139 161E3 8B A1
GB 18030132 49 151 4984 31 97 31164 197A4 C5165 197A5 C5165 196 129 57 167 50A5 C4 81 39 A7 32129 57 211 5181 39 D3 33
Numeric character referenceｯｯづづヅヅツ゚ツ゚㋡㋡
Shift JIS (plain)[3]175AF130 19582 C3131 10083 64
Shift JIS-2004[10]175AF130 19582 C3131 10083 64131 15783 9D
EUC-JP (plain)[4]142 1758E AF164 197A4 C5165 197A5 C5
EUC-JIS-2004[11]142 1758E AF164 197A4 C5165 197A5 C5165 253A5 FD
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 197AA C5171 197AB C5
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 201C6 C9199 93C7 5D
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8]199 76C7 4C199 193C7 C1

See also

Look up つ, づ, ツ, or ヅ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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References

  1. ↑ "🤷 Shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoji". emojipedia.org.
  2. ↑ "The Best Way to Type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯". The Atlantic. 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  3. 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  4. 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  5. 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. 1 2 Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. 1 2 van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  9. ↑ Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.
  10. ↑ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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