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Is been 25 years since I took Japanese in highschool but I'm relatively certain that our textbooks had ち romanized as tchi which from my recollection seems more
by donatj 10mo ago
Is been 25 years since I took Japanese in highschool but I'm relatively certain that our textbooks had ち romanized as tchi which from my recollection seems more accurate to its actual common pronunciation.
- mc3301 10mo agoI have seen chi and ti, both of which when qwerty typed on standard windows or mac produce ち. I have never seen it as tchi. つ is often seen as tu or tsu. I have been in Japan for over a decade.
- ptx 10mo agoPerhaps only in the case where it's preceded by the small tsu? E.g. "一人ぼっち" -> "hitori bo[tsu]chi" -> "hitori botchi"? That's what Wikipedia says [1], although I think it's also common to (incorrectly?) use "bocchi" instead. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization#Long_consonants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization#Long_cons...
- bentley 10mo ago“tchi” is the Hepburn romanization of っち. (Knowing very little Japanese myself, the first example that comes to mind is たまごっち → tamagotchi.)