| SYMBOLS AND EXAMPLES | Katakana Lesson 3, Page 097:
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 | tu |  | | (ヅ occurs only rarely in modern spelling. It will be discussed in Lesson 8. Insofar as it occurs, its romanized equivalent is zu, for which the usual katakana equivalent is ズ). | | Examples: | | ドイツ | doitu | 'Germany' | | This is a borrowing from German. | | ツール | tuuru | 'Tours' | | This is a borrowing from French. |
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| "...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power. |
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