How do you write 縮めて in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)?
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How do you write 縮めて in IPA?
Writing IPA for Japanese is really quite simple in most cases.

Look up [IPA for Japanese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Japanese)
and use the sounds there to write your word.

> 縮めて  
>  [tɕi(d)ʑimeteꜜ]

The `ꜜ` is a tone drop, although here on Japanese.SE we have a fantastic way
of writing pitch for かな: ちぢめて【LHHH】. (Correct pitch due to @非回答者.)
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It's pronounced [[c̟ɕiʑimete]], although in careful speech it would probably
be [[c̟ɕiɟʑimete]]―there's no contrast between [[ʑi]] and [[ɟʑi]] in Modern
Japanese, so the word will be understood either way.

For the pronunciation of ち and ぢ, see section 4.3 "Affricates" in Vance's _The
Sounds of Japanese_ (2008), starting on page 82. [Most of this section is
available online at Google Books](http://books.google.com/books?id=Hos-
XSzQ87AC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&ots=XGzpDvrtSH&sig=-HgtDwUGRSnLtLLeTsNwZvZexc8&hl=ja&sa=X&ei=i1KLU82UI83coASds4HgCg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false).
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