I just hit level seven where you start having this problem. Everyplace I read says that post war there is phonetically zero difference. Is there a trick to remembering the correct form of these that anyone uses? It almost seems like it would only reallllly matter if I wanted to take jlpt or somethin…

Almost always the characters ず and じ are used. The few exceptions are primarily because of rendaku, i.e. a word like blood・ち・血 is in the word nosebleed・はなぢ・鼻血. If you know the original word is ち then that can help you remember the correct spelling in “nosebleed.” In general, ぢ is so rare, it tend…

How to remember correct form of things like ず/づ and じ/ぢ

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ekg April 11, 2023, 6:54am 4

There is also a nifty script that gives you rendaku information on each item.

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