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Originally Posted by steven
Good post. I'd like to share my opinion on a couple of points though.
About hiragana- those "smalls" are called "furigana". Furigana are used to show the reading of kanji (and unfortunately sometimes "English"). Sometimes they are there and sometimes they aren't. It depends on what you're looking at and the age level it was made for (you won't usually see furigana on top of basic kanji unless you're reading something for elementary school kids). Likewise, you will sometimes see "furigana" written for katakana words (I've only seen this in material that was for 5-6 year olds).
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I mean the small
っ, ぁ, ぃ, ぅ, ぇ, ぉ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ next to Hiragana letters. I didn't mean furigana. I'm pretty sure they're called smalls right? Like to make words such as か
っこうわるい or じ
ぉうし etc. etc.