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dakuten; voicing mark
The pair of small strokes written at the upper right of a kana to mark a voiced consonant, as in が, ざ, だ, and ば.
「か」に濁点をつけると「が」になる。
Adding a dakuten to "ka" makes "ga."
子どもは濁点のある字を読み間違えやすい。
Children easily misread characters that have a dakuten.
濁点は清音を濁音に変える記号で、かなの右上に小さく書く。
The dakuten is a mark that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one, written small at the upper right of a kana.
The voicing mark written at the upper right of a kana to indicate a voiced consonant: か becomes が, さ becomes ざ, た becomes だ, は becomes ば. Colloquially called 点々.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 濁点をつける: to add a dakuten
- 濁点をとる: to remove a dakuten
- 濁点つきの字: a character with a dakuten
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 半濁点: handakuten — the small circle that turns は into ぱ
- 濁音: voiced sound — the voiced syllable itself, the result of adding a 濁点