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Are there words whose kana spelling contains the sequence ょお/ョオ within the same morpheme?
The Kunrei-shiki standard (ISO 3602:1989; Documentation — Romanization of Japanese (kana script)) lists both よお/ヨオ and よう/ヨウ for yô, but in its Table 3b (Kana trigraphs representing palatalized long-...
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What is the most appropriate way to indicate a long vowel in Katakana?
I know that often, when rendering a long vowel in Katakana, a hyphen is used.
For example, the Katakana rendering of the English word "coat" is often shown as コート .
I have seen both "ko-...
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A grammar issue?
What is the meaning of the "long hyphen," --, a DASH really, for grammar, translation, and punctuation? For example :
シャワーヘッド (Shawaheddo)? Thank you
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How to write long sound to emphasize words?
For example, I want to emphasize the word しらない by saying shiiiiiranai, しいいいらない seems a little bit weird to me. How do you write this in japanese character, can we also write this in the form of kanji?
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Long O — when is it OU and when OO?
I am learning hiragana and I've encountered a minor problem. The thing is that my book did mention how to deal with a long "O": just by adding another "O" or "U". However it doesn't explain in which ...
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ー vs small kana vs long kana for writing long vowels
I had thought that for writing long vowels in Japanese, that small kana was mostly used with hiragana and ー was mostly used with katakana.
I was actually thinking of asking whether there were ...
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