だくてん

Japanese

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

【濁点】 [noun] a voicing diacritical mark, such as ゛ on が, used to: [noun] derive the kana for a voiced-onsetted mora from the kana for a base voiceless-onsetted mora; [noun] (informal) orthographically convey a guttural tone, such as that of a cry or scream

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