はんだくてん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はんだくてん – see the following entry.

【半濁点】 [noun] a diacritical mark, such as ゜ on ぱ, used to: [noun] derive the kana for a mora onsetted with /p/ from the kana for a mora onsetted with /h/ [noun] orthographically phonetically denote [ŋ], a realization of /ɡ/ especially occurring word-medially, instead of the standard dakuten ゛, chiefly in pronunciation dictionaries

(This term, はんだくてん, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)