Talk:Sokuon

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I'm writing a script to convert Hiragana into Romaji. Can someone tell me which kana can come after the little tsu?

A table would help. --Uncle Ed 21:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

It can appear in front of the the K, S, T and P kana (which includes shi, chi and tsu). In standard romanisation the 'chi' (being one of the 't' column) turns into 'tchi' if it has the sokuon; the other irregular ones turn into 'ttsu' and 'sshi'.

And also, for the youon (the ones which have き、し、ち and ぴ in them) this applies too... so you have words like げっきょう equals geっkiyou (gekkyou/wages) and はっぴ equals haっpi ゃく (happyu/800). Again if you're romanising, bear in mind that 'chi' with little tsu becomes 'tchi', and so 'chu' 'tchu', cho tcho, cha tcha (like the novel 'Botchan': ぼっちゃん).

So that means there are 20 kana that it can be put in front of plus another 15 youon sounds (unless some combinations simply never happen...). I think that's it. Oh, and it is possible I suppose that it's put in other places in Japanese approximations of foreign sounds, but I can't think of them. That'd be katakana anyway. 163.1.42.115 01:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much, "163". I need to add this info to the article, as well as to my Javascript program. --Uncle Ed 15:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)