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っ small tsu

How to say っ (small tsu) in Japanese, with a picture to remember it.

Sounds like "tt"

Pause for one beat before the next consonant: きって is “kit-te,” not “kite.”

Memory cue: Trap

The word steps into a Trap and freezes for one beat.

In Remlori, this picture appears in every word that contains っ (20 words in the course so far).

A rectangular wooden mousetrap with a snapped silver wire, a bright crimson spring, and a distinctive, jagged bite mark chipped out of one corner.

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