Diacritic of the Japanese spelling-books

One calls Diacritique a graphic sign affixed with a Graphème of the spelling-books Hiragana or Katakana in order to transcribe a Phonème modified that which this graphème transcribes.

The Japanese uses two diacritic:

the first (゛) is a made up sign two small features, which makes it possible to transform a deaf consonant into sound consonant with initial of a syllable - except for the H which is changed into B - and which has several denominations:

dakuten (濁点, “not sound”),
nigori (濁り), by abbreviation of nigoriten (濁り点),
and more familiarly ten-ten (点点 or 点々, “not”);

the second (゜) is a small round, which makes it possible to transform H into p , and which has two names:

handakuten (半濁点, “not semi-sound”),
and more familiarly maru (丸, “round”).

Modifications of the hiragana

One does not quote that the attacks syllable.

K + ゛ = G
S + ゛ = Z
HS + ゛ = J
T + ゛ = D
CH + ゛ = DJ
TS + ゛ = DZ
H + ゛ = B
H + ゜ = P

Modifications of the katakana

The modifications of the katakana are the same ones as those of the hiragana. One transcribes just in more the sound (in the loanwords) by:

U + ゛ = V

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