# ふ - what the ふ。。。？！

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Most of the い mora are palatalised (kinda adding a y sound) so you can kind of think of ち as tyi, し as syi, and ちょ as tyo.  
ティ cancels the palatisation to get ti.

(I made this thing which covers the sounds in Japanese pretty comprehensively, so if you can parse the jargon, then you might find it useful).

> [@Japanese Phonology Chart (with IPA)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-phonology-chart-with-ipa/48255):
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> I’ve put together a chart of all the sounds that are used in standard Japanese according the [Wikipedia article for Japanese phonology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_phonology) and I thought I’d share it here in case it’s useful to anyone or if anyone can spot any mistakes/oversights in it. It’s tricky to incorporate all the nuances at first (e.g. palatal before i or central u vs back u), but with a bit of practise, it seems to be becoming second nature. The one that came as the biggest shock to me was わ which turns out is not labial li…

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