The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana , as well as the various consonants represented by it. In less formal language, it is called or , meaning "small ". It serves multiple purposes in Japanese writing.
The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana , as well as the various consonants represented by it. In less formal language, it is called or , meaning "small ". It serves multiple purposes in Japanese writing.
== Appearance == In both hiragana and katakana, the appears as a reduced in size: {| class="wikitable" align="center" ! !Full-sized !Sokuon |- !Hiragana | align="center" | | align="center" | |- !Katakana | align="center" | | align="center" | |}
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).