typing tzu in kana
 

Hi everyone, stupid question here.

How do I type tzu in hiragana on my mac? I tried "tzu" and "zu" already with no luck.

Thanks a million!

Try typing du.

やった！

本当にありがとうね！日本語の四年生はそんなことを知 るはずだけど、僕はちょっとばかだ。ハハハ！

:d

長い時間日本語を勉強するから、コンピューターが上手 だと言えません （笑）。

To be fair, it's called "dzu" not "tzu." Or, if you're a leet linguist, "du."

Really? Every textbook I have used over the past several years (and all the other ones I have ever looked at) all used the romaji tzu.

This also seems to be much closer to the correct pronunciation, to my barbarian ears at least.

I am convinced it is dzu. The t sound becomes a d, and the s sound becomes z. That's how I hear it, it's how I pronounce it, and I've never been told I'm wrong.

Interesting! I will start listening more carefully and see if I can hear it!

Thanks for the help, everyone.

1. you're using some crummy textbooks then because nobody says /t/ at the beginning of づ (see the link to Wikipedia's Yotsugana entry to see what I mean)
2. this shows why you should move from romaji quickly (seems you already have, so good for you!)
3. it doesn't sound like tzu—a native will tell you that づ and ず in most of Japan are now pronounced the same.

Yotsugana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All of the green and yellow in the map pronounce ず and づ exactly the same.

This is true. If OP is learning the standard Japanese, which he should be, there is absolutely no difference in pronunciation between ず and づ. The same rule applies to Tokyo dialect (as OP appears to live in Tokyo.)

Since over 95% of us live in the yellow and green areas on that map, this fact about the pronunciation should not be taken lightly. If you pronounce ず and づ differently, you will sound strange to most Japanese. In fact, I, as a native speaker, don't even know how to pronounce those two syllables differently.