The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. " voicing mark"), colloquially ten-ten (点 々, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana …

Dec 4, 2017 · In Japanese, the dakuten 濁点, sometimes called tenten てんてん, chonchon ちょんちょん, or dakuonpu 濁音符, are diacritics, accents used on kana to represent a "voice …

Learn to read and write the 25 basic dakuten and handakuten Hiragana characters.

Aug 27, 2024 · Dakuten ( ﾞ ) and Handakuten ( ﾟ ) are marks placed after certain hiragana that modify the way the consonant is pronounced. These marks indicate that the consonant of the …

What Are Dakuten and Handakuten? The Dakuten, also known as "tenten", are those two small quotation marks (゛) that appear in the upper right corner of a kana character to indicate that …

Adding dakuten to ち andつ turns them to ぢ and づ, however the pronunciations of づ and ぢ have merged with ず and じ over time. Imagine the dakuten as a mark that transforms …

In informal writing, dakuten is occasionally used on vowels to indicate a shocked or strangled articulation; for example, on Japanese: あ゙ or Japanese: ゔ. Dakuten can also be occasionally …

Basically, dakuten are hiragana you already know plus a little “quotation mark” or “little circle” next to them. By adding one of these little dakuten to certain hiragana, you change their sound and …

In order to read all the Hiragana characters you must know about Dakuten, Handakuten and Contracted Sounds. Let's learn them!

Dakuten. We’ve now covered all of the 46 CHARACTERS you need to phonetically read Japanese, but that is NOT all of the sounds in Japanese. We can actually modify the sound of …