つ

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝ]

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

つ (romaji tsu)

1. The hiragana syllable つ (tsu). Its equivalent in katakana is ツ (tsu). It is the eighteenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is た行う段 (ta-gyō u-dan, “row ta, section u”).

• (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
• とぅ (tu)

⟨tu⟩ → /t͡su/

From Old Japanese. According one theory, shortened from 棄 (う)つ (<utu> → utsu, “throw away, discard”).

つ (rōmaji -tsu)

1. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi) indicates the completion of an action
2. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi) indicates certainty
3. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi) indicates affirmation
4. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi, in the form ...tsu ...tsu) shows parallel action

• 下二段活用 (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”). Attaches to the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of a verb.
• つ (tsu) is mainly used with transitive verbs while ぬ (nu) is mainly used with intransitive verbs.

• つつ (tsutsu, “although, while”)

⟨tu⟩ → /t͡su/

From Old Japanese.

There were some variants found in the old documents, start with alveolar consonants like の (no), な (na), す (su), し (shi), て (te) etc.[1]

Yamada (1913) proposed that it's cognate with Old Korean 叱 (-s) (whence Middle Korean ㅅ (-s)). [2]

つ (rōmaji tsu)

1. (archaic, obsolete) genitive case marker

   豊 (とよ)葦 (あし)原 (はらの)中 (なかつ)国 (くに)

   Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni

   Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni

   天 (あま)つ風 (かぜ)

   ama tsu kaze

   wind blowing from the heavens

A few terms in modern Japanese have been derived from the case-marker tsu:

• 目 (ま) (ma, “eye”, combining form) + つ (tsu) 毛 (け) (ke, “hair”) → 睫 (まつげ) (matsuge, “eyelashes”)
• 身 (み) (mi, “body”) + つ (tsu) + 柄 (から) (kara, “design → by itself”) → 自 (みずか)ら (mizukara, “personally, oneself”)

• が (ga)
• の (no)

From Old Japanese.

• 個, 箇

つ (rōmaji -tsu)

1. suffixed to Japanese numerals hito-, futa-, mi-, ... , kokono-, used to count almost anything

   Synonym: 個 (-ko)

• ち (-chi), for 二十歳 (hatachi), 三十路 (misoji)

つ (rōmaji tsu)

1. 津: harbor, port; ferry

つ (rōmaji Tsu)

1. 津: a place name
2. 津: a surname

つ (rōmaji tsu)

1. 唾: saliva, spit

Probably from kaomoji such as (´･ω･)つ旦, which represents serving tea.

つ

1. (Internet slang) Representing a hand handing something over.

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