はんだくてん

Japanese

Noun

はんだくてん • (handakuten) 

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