Home › Words › D › dakutendakuten/ˈdækuˌtɛn/dakuten means A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.dakuten is pronounced /ˈdækuˌtɛn/.EtymologyFrom Japanese 濁点(だくてん) (dakuten), from Middle Chinese 濁 (ɖæwk, “voiced, turbid”) + 點 (tém, “dot, mark”).nounA diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.handakuten 64% match — A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/. vs dakuten →macron 56% match — A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. vs dakuten →tečka 55% match — A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation). vs dakuten →shadda 55% match — A diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant. vs dakuten →tonos 54% match — The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable. vs dakuten →dialytika 54% match — A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet vs dakuten →udātta 52% match — A high pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, customarily marked with acute accent. vs dakuten →sukun 52% match — A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel. vs dakuten →