Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Diacritical marks"

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Total 12 word senses

• 半濁点 (Noun) a diacritical mark, such as ゜ on ぱ, used to:; orthographically phonetically denote [ŋ], a realization of /ɡ/ especially occurring word-medially, instead of the standard dakuten ゛, chiefly in pronunciation dictionaries
• 濁点 (Noun) a voicing diacritical mark, such as ゛ on が, used to:; derive the kana for a voiced-onsetted mora from the kana for a base voiceless-onsetted mora;
• 濁点 (Noun) a voicing diacritical mark, such as ゛ on が, used to:; orthographically convey a guttural tone, such as that of a cry or scream
• アクサン (Noun) French diacritic
• ウムラウト (Noun) umlaut
• チルダ (Noun) a tilde (diacritical mark)
• トレマ (Noun) trema (diacritic); diaresis
• ◌̂ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called サーカムフレックス (“circumflex”) in Japanese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.
• ◌̄ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called マクロン (“macron”) in Japanese, and found on Ā/ā, Ē/ē, Ī/ī, Ō/ō and Ū/ū.
• ゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).
• ゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).; It is also sometimes colloquially used to indicate a strained or shouting vocalization.
• ゜ (Character) 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/).

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