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katakana ヅ

  • December 17, 2022

I’ve been studying japanaese for many years, but I have never seen the katakana ヅ used anywhere.

Do you guys know japanese words, which contains ヅ ?

9 comments

  2. Generally you would only see it when a word is spelled in katakana that would normally be written in hiragana (for whatever reason); it has no standard use in transcribing foreign words.

  4. There’s a crane near my house that’s apparently a カナダヅル so I’m gonna say there’s probably a handful of animal names that it pops up in

  5. I don’t know of any loan words, but those aside, there’s always the possibility of writing a Japanese word or name containing づ in katakana for stylistic reasons.

  6. Go find a Japanese “dollar” store, like Daiso Japan, or grocery store, like Mitsua Marketplace. A lot of snacks have Katakana text, as well as Hiragana and Kanji. They’re fun to interpret and you get a “taste” of Japanese culture, too! Hope this helps.

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