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Compound voiced katakana
And finally we have the voiced equivalents of the compound katakana. These
form voiced / unvoiced pairs in much the same way as the basic katakana
we saw earlier. Just as ga is ka plus two small dashes, gya
is kya plus two small dashes. Simple, really.
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Notice that ja / ju / jo are the voiced forms of
sha / shu / sho, just as ji is the voiced
form of shi. The hya / bya / pya progression
is similar to the ha / ba / pa we saw earlier, too.
  
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