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sokuon

Japanese orthographical sign in the form of a small hiragana (っ) or katakana (ッ) tsu, used to mark geminate consonants in the Japanese language
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sokuon

Summary

sokuon is a hiragana character[1]. sokuon ranks in the top 10% of hiragana_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (109 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sokuon's instance of is recorded as hiragana character[3].
  • sokuon's part of is recorded as kana[4].
  • sokuon's Commons category is recorded as Sokuon[5].
  • sokuon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0849r_[6].
  • sokuon's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '促音'}[7].
  • sokuon's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'つまる音'}[8].

Why It Matters

sokuon ranks in the top 10% of hiragana_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (109 views/month).[2] sokuon has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] sokuon is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). sokuon. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sokuon
MLA “sokuon.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/sokuon.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sokuon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sokuon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sokuon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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