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Two short strokes at a kana's upper right.
Also known as: Ten-ten, Voiced sound mark, Nigori mark, Two strokes beside a kana
The dakuten turns a voiceless kana into a voiced one — ka becomes ga, ta becomes da. It is why Japanese needs no separate characters for the voiced series: one mark generates twenty additional syllables from the existing set.
Denotes voicing of a Japanese kana syllable, written as two short diagonal strokes at its upper right.
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Generates the voiced series from the voiceless one, so the kana syllabary needs no separate characters for ga, za, da and ba.
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Pairs with the handakuten, a small circle producing the p-series from the h-series, which is the only other such mark.
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Two short parallel strokes slanting downward to the right, placed at the upper right of a hiragana or katakana character.