eh i came across this and im confused いつ歳　Which means one year old but shouldnt it be いちさい - Feed Post by Joker12332

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  mog86uk

  Don't you mean いっ歳 (not that it would ever be written like that anyway)?
  
  No, 一歳 is いっさい, not いちさい. ^^

  October 21, 2016 at 8:20am
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  Joker12332

  Yea i dont know kanji it just automatically went to the kanji when i spaced so yea
  

  October 21, 2016 at 8:29am
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  mog86uk

  It went to いつ歳 instead of 一歳 because you wrote it with the normal size つ (rather than the small っ). The main thing I was talking about in my first sentence was just about the つ being wrong; not so much about the kanji.
  
  いつさい　-- space -->　いつ歳
  いっさい　-- space -->　一歳
  
  With the wrong size つ it thinks you wrote two separate phrases, いつ and さい. ^^

  October 21, 2016 at 9:05am
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  FelliVox

  Or just write "issai", since I doubt you know how to make the small っ, I don't remember how to make the small っ since I write as it sounds and it interprets it well.

  October 21, 2016 at 3:48pm
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  Shaela

  And this whole time I always got so confused why people put "tsu" when really it was a space! Thanks Mog :) or Moogle x)

  October 22, 2016 at 5:11am
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  mog86uk

  @Shaela, Hmm. I'm not sure what to think about it being referred to as a "space", but I'm glad to hear it helped you understand it better. ^^
  
  http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/reading-writing-memorizing-hiragana/4-8/
  ↑This page is pretty good at explaining the small っ in a way that's simple to understand, along with some pronunciation help too.

  October 22, 2016 at 7:28am
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  Shaela

  Thanks! I'll read up on that too

  October 22, 2016 at 7:47am