Etymology

dakuten

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Today it means: A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced. Full definition →

Middle Chinese 濁
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  1. Middle Chinese · derived from濁“voiced, turbid”
  2. English todaydakuten

From Japanese 濁点(だくてん) (dakuten), from Middle Chinese 濁 (ɖæwk, “voiced, turbid”) + 點 (tém, “dot, mark”).

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