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Dakuten and handakuten

Japanese diacritic signs ◌゙◌゚oDakuten and handakuten Combining characters U+3099 ◌゙ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+309A ◌゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK Stand-alone characters U+309B ゛ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+309C ゜ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK U+FF9E ゙ HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+FF9F ゚ HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK kana gojūon warayamahanatasakaawiri(yi)mihinichishikii(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuuwere(ye)mehenetesekeeworoyomohonotosokoon Kana modifiers and marks sokuonfu (gemination) yōon (palatalization) chōonpu (vowel lengthener) Iteration marks dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) Multi-moraic kana iu kashiko koto sama shite toki tomo nari mairasesoro yori vte The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点; Japanese pronunciation: [dä̀.kɯ̥̈.té̞ɴ̀, -.té̞ɴ́], lit. 'muddying/voicing mark'), colloquially ten-ten (点々, 'dots'), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a mora should be pronounced as voiced — for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The handakuten (半濁点; [h