in the ten-ten letters there's the 's' to 'z' row:
za ji zu ze zo
and there's the 't' to 'd' row:
da ji zu de do
my question is how do you know when to use which "ji"?
ji and ji
RE: ji and ji
Most often the s-ji is used: じ for reasons that may even be a mystery to the Japanese!
The t-ji: ぢ is rarely used... and actually... I can't think of a single word that I've learned in my four years that uses ぢ. (I'm sure someone can come along and prove me wrong on this, that it IS actually used--not that I doubt it is.) So ぢ is very rarely used, I imagine.
If you are writing a word and need to write JI, I'd say that safely, 9 times out of 10, you're going to use じ.
The t-ji: ぢ is rarely used... and actually... I can't think of a single word that I've learned in my four years that uses ぢ. (I'm sure someone can come along and prove me wrong on this, that it IS actually used--not that I doubt it is.) So ぢ is very rarely used, I imagine.
If you are writing a word and need to write JI, I'd say that safely, 9 times out of 10, you're going to use じ.
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RE: ji and ji
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