Why is やっぱり (yappari) spelled the way it is?


I started learning Japanese very recently. The spelling of やっぱり (yappari)
seems odd to me. The second letter in やっぱり is tsu in hiragana (っ) which is not
pronounced. Why?




やっぱり = 矢{や}張{は}り.

If you pronouce 張 as ぱ, the entity would become やぱり which sounds awkward. To
facilitate the pronunciation, we insert っ. The 'っ' character is the reason why
there's 2 p's. For more detail look at this ->
<http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E4%BF%83%E9%9F%B3%E4%BE%BF>.




やっぱり = 矢{や}張{は}り.

If you pronouce 張 as ぱ, the entity would become やぱり which sounds awkward. To
facilitate the pronunciation, we insert っ. The 'っ' character is the reason why
there's 2 p's. For more detail look at this ->
<http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E4%BF%83%E9%9F%B3%E4%BE%BF>.

