Dakuten and handakuten

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Dakuten 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 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK
    • U+FF9F HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK

The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点; Japanese pronunciation: [da.kɯ̥.te(ꜜ)ɴ], lit.'muddying/voicing mark'), colloquially ten-ten (, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a mora should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

The handakuten (半濁点; [han.daꜜ.kɯ̥.teɴ], lit.'semi-muddying/voicing mark'), colloquially maru (, "circle"), is a diacritic used with kana for morae pronounced with /h/ or /f/ to indicate that they should instead be pronounced with /p/.