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Looking at an old world war two map, I know there is a mountain/hill/ridge which was nicknamed "lion" by the Japanese. The old map has a Japanese symbol written on the spot of that mountain/hill/ridge.

Because I don't know Japanese (can't recognize and understand the characters), I don't know which one of the following characters it might be:

Either:

シ

or

ツ

Could someone with knowledge of Japanese give me a definite answer on which one it might likely be, and why.

Drawing from my knowledge of Chinese, my best guess is it will be

シ

because it seems that this Japanese character is pronounced "shi", which might be coming from the Chinese "獅子" (shi zi).

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獅子 is a dated word that means lion in Japanese. This can also be written as しし in hiragana and シシ (shi-shi) in katakana.

シ can ツ can be distinguished like this. ツツ/つつ/筒 means pipe, by the way.

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