dakuten

Noun

Meaning

dakuten (plural dakuten)

A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
Synonyms: tenten, (colloquial) nigori

Examples

By adding a dakuten marker ( ゛), a voiceless consonant is turned into a voiced consonant: k→g, ts/s→z, t→d, h→b and ch/sh→j. Source: Internet

For compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing, the original hiragana is used. Source: Internet

Hiragana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them, with the yōon kana following. Source: Internet

If the first two syllables of a word consist of one syllable without a dakuten and the same syllable with a dakuten, the same hiragana is used to write the sounds. Source: Internet

In this scheme, diacritics (dakuten and handakuten) are separate characters. Source: Internet

Katakana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them. Source: Internet

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