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erok
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Hiragana

Postby erok » December 10th, 2006 6:08 pm

When reading hiragana, occasionally there will be a character written a little smaller than the rest. Will someone please remind me what this is to mean? (I could not find the answer in my materials)
Arigato,

Eric
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erok
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Re: Hiragana

Postby erok » December 10th, 2006 10:31 pm

erok wrote:When reading hiragana, occasionally there will be a character written a little smaller than the rest. Will someone please remind me what this is to mean? (I could not find the answer in my materials)
Arigato,

Eric


I found the answer to my question.. I think. The smaller character is to be used in combination with the preceding character. (Ki and Ya = Kya)
Eric
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Postby Harv » December 10th, 2006 10:39 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Don
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokuon
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Postby Yoshiko » December 30th, 2006 11:48 am

erok's right :)
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