"゜" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Head templates: {{head|ja|diacritical mark}} ゜
  1. The handakuten, which indicates that a kana with an initial of h- should be pronounced with p- (i.e. ha with a handakuten is pronounced as pa). It is also sometimes used with k- kana to indicate ng- (a phoneme that is usually an allophone of /g/). Tags: diacritic Categories (topical): Japanese diacritical marks Related terms: ゛: the dakuten, まる: the handakuten mark (maru) [colloquial]
    Sense id: en-゜-ja-character-~izW3u0Y Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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