つ

Character	つ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER TU
Codepoint	U+3064

See also づ, and っ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 川 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [t͡sɯᵝ]

Syllable

つ (Hepburn romanization tsu)

1. The hiragana syllable つ (tsu), whose equivalent in katakana is ツ (tsu). It is the eighteenth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is た行う段 (TA-gyō, U-dan; “row TA, section U”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with つ (tsu) see: Special:Allpages/つ

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Counter

つ (romaji tsu)

1. small items

Compounds

• 一つ (ひとつ, hitotsu)

  noun: one, 1 (counting); the same

• 二つ (ふたつ, futatsu)

  noun: two, 2 (counting); two years old

• 三つ (みっつ, mittsu)

  noun: three 3 (counting)

• 四つ (よっつ, yottsu)
• 五つ (いつつ, itsutsu)
• 六つ (むっつ, muttsu)
• 七つ (ななつ, nanatsu)
• 八つ (やっつ, yattsu)
• 九つ (ここのつ, kokonotsu)

Synonyms

• 個