゜

◌゚ U+309A, ゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK ← ◌゙ [U+3099] Hiragana ゛ → [U+309B]

゜ U+309C, ゜ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK ← ゛ [U+309B] Hiragana ゝ → [U+309D]

ﾟ U+FF9F, ﾟ HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK ← ﾞ [U+FF9E] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ﾠ → [U+FFA0]

Japanese

Diacritical mark

゜

1. The handakuten, which indicates that a kana with an initial of h- should be pronounced with p- (i.e. ha with a handakuten is pronounced as pa). It is also sometimes used with k- kana to indicate ng- (a phoneme that is usually an allophone of /g/).

See also

• ゛: the dakuten
• まる (maru): (colloquial) the handakuten mark