For ゃゅょ ャュョ ぁぃぅぇぉ ァィゥェォ ゎ ヮヵヶ, does anyone know if there's an official Japanese term for these… - Feed Post by mog86uk

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  kekkou

  I researched on bing.com (Microsoft USA search engine), leading me to http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1024471550, leading me to the answer: 拗音 (ようおん)

  January 9, 2015 at 12:41pm
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  mog86uk

  Gah. I knew this would happen. Finally decide to ask the question and find the answer immediately afterwards.
  
  The answer seems to be 捨て仮名 (すてがな).
  
  Earlier I did actually stumble across another term I could have used, 小書き文字 (こがきもじ), but this seemed more like a simple descriptive phrase than an actual name for it.
  
  Funny thing is, the place where I found the answer was a Spanish webpage! Only been a few days since that other post on here, where I had to read a Spanish webpage. Maybe to learn Japanese better I need to learn Spanish too? :D
  
  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutegana

  January 9, 2015 at 12:47pm
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  kekkou

  Also, Japan Wikipedia has a Japanese article at http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/拗音, and the English Wikipedia article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yōon

  January 9, 2015 at 12:50pm
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  kekkou

  Copy the "ōon" and paste it at the end of the URL for the English Wikipedia article.

  January 9, 2015 at 12:52pm
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  mog86uk

  @kekkou Thanks. However my question was a bit more specific.
  
  I already knew about 正音 (せいおん), 濁音 (だくおん) and 拗音 (ようおん). Examples of 拗音 are "きゃ", "きゅ", "きょ", etc. I was asking about just the individual small symbols on their own.
  
  I did notice people on that first link you gave referred to them as things like "小さい文字" and as "ちいさく「や」「ゆ」「よ」". I had a feeling something simple like this would be how people usually refer to them. :D

  January 9, 2015 at 12:59pm
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  kekkou

  Oh, ok. Cool. Good job finding Sutegana.

  January 9, 2015 at 1:03pm
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  mog86uk

  Looking back on it, I thought the answer was likely going to be a word ending in 仮名. I could have found this answer so much quicker if I'd tried typing *仮名 in a dictionary...
  
  http://www.jisho.org/words?jap=*%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D
  
  I knew of all the terms on the results page not marked "obsolete", except for すてがな, lol. That is a good list of words to learn more about. ^^
  
  I'm kind of sad now though. I usually find out answers on my own really easily, and so I rarely ever can think of any questions to post on JCJP. I'll have to think hard to find some other weird question to post now...

  January 9, 2015 at 2:07pm
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  mog86uk

  Wow, JCJP makes it so hard to post links, like how your links above with macrons and kanji didn't work either. I already modified this link heavily to get it to work, but was still not enough. This link should work:
  
  http://www.jisho.org/words?jap=%2A%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D

  January 9, 2015 at 2:13pm
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  DS25

  捨て仮名 seems quite offensive...　哀れ小さいあいつら :(

  January 9, 2015 at 4:12pm
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  Seiji

  That symbols are called kanas, all of katakana and hiragana symbols.

  January 10, 2015 at 12:33am
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  mog86uk

  Okay then, here's a new question:
  
  I think き "ki" is referred to as one kana, や "ya" is one kana, ...
  So, is きゃ "kya" one kana or two kana?
  
  @DS25 Offensive? You're defending the small symbols against discrimination? haha. :D
  I guess 捨 does mean things like "discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice" and is used in a lot of very negative words...

  January 10, 2015 at 1:25am