づ and ぢ

I too puzzled myself for a few minutes when I needed them too when writing 気付かない.
I was trying to change きずかない to 気付かない, but I could not make it work by any means.

thermal wrote:

Ok my turn, how do I type テ and little イ, as in パーティー?

"texi"

Edit: This also applies to other small kana:
ぁぃぅぇぉっゃゅょァィゥェォッャュョ

Edit 2: Apparently "thi" works, too.

Last edited by hknamida (2008 September 20, 1:15 pm)

Virtua_Leaf wrote:

You have no idea how much this helps.

づ　ぢ

And just to verify, they're just uncommon ways of writing 'zu' and 'ji'?

While not as common as ず and じ, they're not all that rare. They're mainly used in compounds where つ or ち undergo phonetic changes (see mentat_kgs's post), and when a [zu] or [ji] sound comes directly after a つ or a ち, respectively. An example of the latter would be つづく.

Last edited by hknamida (2008 September 20, 1:24 pm)

Yeah, it is quite common, as 付く is veeery common.

For typing Japanese, I've got into the habit of using the following:

sa si su se so     さしすせそ
za zi zu ze zo     ざじずぜぞ
ta ti tu te to     だぢづでど
da di du de do     だぢづでど
ha hi hu he ho     はひふへほ

Reasons: It's simple and consistent (easy to remember), but mostly because it saves keystrokes.

Wikipedia article on romaji systems

mentat_kgs wrote:

I guess you got the tatituteto wrong.

Oops, thank you. What I meant was:

sa si su se so     さしすせそ
za zi zu ze zo     ざじずぜぞ
ta ti tu te to     たちつてと
da di du de do     だぢづでど
ha hi hu he ho     はひふへほ