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◌゚ U+309A, ゚
COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
◌゙
Hiragana
U+309C, ゜
KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK

Hiragana
U+FF9F, ゚
HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Japanese

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/).

See also

  • : the dakuten
  • まる (maru): (colloquial) the handakuten mark