What are the muddied sound symbols called?
I have been looking over the drill cards I've been using and added in the muddied sounds to study, I guess I was just curious as to what the symbol/characters, like the small circle and double dash that make the g-d-z-b-j-p sounds, are called?
Any help is appreciated and thank you for your time.
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Officially, they're called だくてん (double dash) and はんだくてん(circle).
I've heard that people call them colloquially てんてん (double dash) and まる (circle).
At least, that's what I think!
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they are called 浊音 in Japanese. like で with two dots~and the one with circle is called 半浊音 likeぱ. the KANA beginning with k, s, t, h, can be added with two dots,then the pronunciation would be changed into g, z, d, b. and the KANA beginning with h can also be added with circle, then the pronunciation would changed into P.
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As Fer said, symbols of "double dash" is called 濁点[だくてん] and small circle is 半濁点[はんだくてん], and in very colloquial words for them is 点々[てんてん] and 丸[まる]. As Cindy said, the kind of sound (syllable) is called 濁音[だくおん] and 半濁音[はんだくおん]. (in Japanese kanji, we use 濁 not 浊.) I hope you get it.
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