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Reduced katakana ツ may also be followed by a syllable with initial h-. The combination ッフ often corresponds to the English spelling doublet 'ff', and ッハ, ッヒ, and ッホ approximate the kind of final sound tht occurs in German 'ach', 'ich', and 'och'. Thus:
The last three examples are borrowings from languages other than English. Note that in these words, the vowel following -hh- in the Japanese, which is not present in the original language, is the same as the vowel preceding the lengthened consonant.
"...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.
