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す, in hiragana or ス in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one Mora (linguistics), mora. Their shapes come from the kanji 寸 and 須, respectively. Both kana represent the sound . In the Ainu language#Writing, Ainu language, the katakana ス can be written as small ㇲ to represent a final s and is used to emphasize the pronunciation of [s] rather than the normal [ɕ] (represented in Ainu as ㇱ). * スィ and ズィ are also used to present ''si'' and ''zi'' pronunciations respectively. For example, 'C' is presented as スィー . See also Hepburn romanization. Stroke order Other communicative representations * Full Braille representation * Character encoding, Computer encodings References

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Hiragana す Stroke Order Animation
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora (linguistics), mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be a vowel such as /a/ (hiragana wikt:あ, あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as /ka/ (wikt:か, か); or /N/ (wikt:ん, ん), a nasal stop, nasal sonorant which, depending on the context and dialect, sounds either like English ''m'', ''n'' or ''ng'' () when syllable-final or like the nasal vowels of French language, French, Portuguese language, Portuguese or Polish language, Polish. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of the aforementioned ん), the kana are r ...
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