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Borrowed from Japanese 点々(てんてん) (tenten, literally “dots”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tenten
Today it means: A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced. Full definition →
Today it means: A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced. Full definition →
Borrowed from Japanese 点々(てんてん) (tenten, literally “dots”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.