半はん濁だく点てん

noun

handakuten; semi-voiced sound mark

The diacritic mark ゜ used in kana to change an 'h' sound to a 'p' sound (e.g., は→ぱ). A basic term in Japanese phonology and writing.

• 「ぱ」は「は」に半はん濁だく点てんを付つけた文も字じです。

  "ぱ" is a character formed by adding a handakuten to "は".

• 半はん濁だく点てんは「゜」と書かきます。

  The handakuten is written as "゜".