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The Hepburn romanization, to express the different realizations of some
consonants before /i/ or /u/, uses different spellings from the other
syllables in their groups:

  * /si/ > "shi"
  * /zi/ > "ji"
  * /ti/ > "chi", /tu/ > "tsu"
  * /hu/ > "fu"

Other romanizations, like the Nihon-shiki or Kunrei-shiki, avoid this
altogether sticking to one consonant symbol for each group.

Have there ever been any romanization standards which instead used diacritics
to express this difference in pronunciation? E.g. something like:

```

    sa ši su se so
    za ži zu ze zo
    ta ťi ţu te to
    ha he ḩu he ho
    
```
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Romanizations of Japanese using consonant diacritics?
No romanization systems currently in use today use diacritics on consonants. I
think it's non-intuitive to both Japanese and English speakers.

[Portuguese-style
romaji](https://green.adam.ne.jp/roomazi/porutogarusiki.html) was used in the
16th century, and it included some diacritics. Historically, there were also
French-, Dutch-, and German-style systems (see a table in the middle of [this
page](https://green.adam.ne.jp/roomazi/iroiro.html)). I don't know about them,
but I believe they are not actively used today, anyway. For example, _tsunami_
is spelled as _tsunami_ in all these languages.
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