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Katakana symbol:
Romanized syllable:
Calligraphy:
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.
"...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.
