What is tsu in english?
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 川 in the cursive sōsho style.
つ (romaji tsu)
⟨tu⟩ → /t͡su/
From Old Japanese.
According to one theory, shortened from 棄つ (
つ • (-tsu)
⟨tu⟩ → /t͡su/
From Old Japanese.
There were some variants found in the old documents, starting with alveolar consonants like の (no), な (na), す (su), し (shi), て (te) etc.
Yamada (1913) proposed that it is cognate with Old Korean 叱 (-s) (whence Middle Korean ㅅ (-s)). However, the phonology does not match, and there is a distinct vestigial medial -s- that appears in certain ancient Japanese terms, such as 春雨 (harusame, possibly haru ("spring") + -s- (genitive) + ame ("rain")), 新稲 (nīshine, possibly nī ("new") + -s- (genitive) + ine ("rice")), 真青 (masao, possibly ma ("true, real") + -s- (genitive) + ao ("blue")).
つ • (tsu)
A few terms in modern Japanese have been derived from the possessive marker tsu:
From Old Japanese.
つ • (-tsu)
つ • (tsu)
つ • (Tsu)
つ • (tsu)
Probably from kaomoji such as (´･ω･)つ旦, which represents serving tea.
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