Why are these “ゃ ゅ ょ っ” so small?!

Have you seen these? -> ゃ　ゅ　ょ っ.

They are inceredibly smaller compared to the normal size of や “ya”　ゆ “yu”　よ “yo”　つ “tsu”.

In order to type these, you can just type X in front of ya yu yo like xya, xyu, xyo.

でも (demo – but) you wouldn’t usually type those individually. They will be used with き kI,　し shI,　ち chI,　に nI,　ひ hI,　み mI, and り rI.

For example:
きゃ　kya　きゃく　KYAku – guest / customer (we usually call them おきゃくさん okyakusan to be polite though.)
きゅ　kyu　きゅうり KYUuri – cucumber
きょ　kyo　きょく　KYOku – (a piece of) music
しゃ　sya　かいしゃ kaiSYA – company
しゅ　syu　しゅみ SYUmi – hobby
しょ　syo　しょうがない SYOuganai – It can be helped / oh well (phrase)
ちゃ　cha　おちゃ oCHA – (green) tea, black tea is こうちゃ koucha and ちゃいろ chairo means brown. (Iro means colour)
ちゅ　chu　ちゅうごく CHUugoku – China
ちょ　cho　ちょう chou – super- e.g ちょうたのしい！ chou tanoshii! Super-fun.　ちょうちょ CHOuCHO – butterfly
にゃ　nya　にゃあ！　nyaa! Meow!
にゅ　nyu　ぎゅうにゅう gyuuNYUu – milk
にょ　nyo　mmmm….you don’t have to remember this… にょう　NYOu – urine…pee is oshikko if you wanna know.
ひゃ　hya　ひゃく HYAku – hundred
ひゅ　hyu　there are only two Japanese words that use this ひゅ. But they are not common at all.
ひょ　hyo　ひょう HYOu – list/chart/diagram, ひょうし HYOushi – bookcover
みゃ　mya　like ひゃ,there are only few Japanese words.
みゅ　myu　nope.
みょ　myo　みょうじ MYOuji – surname (Japanese names come after surname. So Toshi Suzuki would be Suzuki Toshi.)
りゃ　rya　りゃく RYAku – abbreviation (Japanese people love abbreviations! I’ll write about it later.)
りゅ　ryu　りゅうがく RYUugaku – study abroad
りょ　ryo　りょこう RYOkou – travel

Katakana version of　ゃ　ゅ　ょ would be ャ ュ ョ.
I’m not gonna list all like hiragana because つかれた…tsukareta (I’m tired) :p
シャツ SYAtsu – shirts,　ユーチューブ yuuCHUubu – youtube,　ニュース NYUus – news,　リュック RYUkku – backpack

Okay, finally this -> っ(hiragana small tsu) and ッ(katakana small tsu)
いっかい ikkai – once (one time) or first floor, もういっかい mou ikkai! means one more time!
ちょっと chotto – a bit,　まって matte – wait,　ちょっとまって chotto matte – wait a bit
やった yatta – yay!
バッグ baggu (You will often hear like baKKU as well.) – bag
マック makku – the abbreviation of McDonald’s. Yup, that’s how we call McDonald’s in Japan.
コック kokku – cook / chef. Hey, it’s not cock. You’ve got a dirty hentai (perverted) mind. Joudan. (Just kidding.)

Humm so did you get how small tsu works? It appears when we need to indicate a double consonant sound.

If there were no small tsu in the phrase まって maTte, it would be まて mate

and it would mean “WAIT, you bastard” or “Wait” to your dog.  A British and Australian person may say it.

You know, MATE, mate. (Wait, mate.) …not funny? しょうがない。(Oh well.)

Or きく kiku means listen, but if you put small tsu, you get きっく (more correctly, in Katakana – キック) kiKku, which means “kick”.

やった！ yatta! If you understood these articles about ゃ ゅ ょ っ and ー,  ゛ ,  ゜ ,

you can say you mastered hiragana and katakana :) I’m proud of you! You are the samurai!

Just for break. I’ll tell you about gyaru moji.　Gyaru comes from the word Gal.

But it refers to a girl who usually goes to ghetto-school wearing a ちょう (super) short skirt

and wears tons of make-up and dyes her hair blond or any bright colour.

Their stereotype is “baka” stupid… sorry, gyaru people. But that’s what the majority of people think…

it doesn’t mean they are bad people.  Moji means letters (characters) or can mean handwriting too.

Here is the gyaru moji ->

かゎいぃ kawaii – cute (かわいい is correct.)　こんにちゎ konnichiwa  – hello（こんにちは）ゃだ yada – No way! I don’t wanna ~!（やだ）

As for こんにちゎ, this is horrible. Firstly konnichiwa is a formal phrase, so you cannot write like that formally…

it’s like texting a boss like “Heya, sup, I did a paper 4 u”…even if it’s not small wa,  こんにちわ is already bad.

Yeah, WA is わ, but you have to write は for WA here. When I see a Japanese person writing like that, I feel like I wanna punch her/him in their ass.

They are still okay. Here comes worst ones. : こωL=ちﾚ￡…eh? It’s not even Japanese characters…yup. That’s right. It’s not.

But they think it does look like Japanese.  The first letter is normal こ ko. The second one is ω greek letter that looks like ん n.

The third and forth together L= becomes に ni and then normal ち chi. And the last two ﾚ￡ make は ha/wa.

こωL=ちﾚ￡ =　こんにちは konnichiwa… Crazy….

If you ever get an email from a Japanese girl who texts like that, just ignore it…maybe. I would…