You may have noticed in the last article, that for a chart that is called Gojuon (五十音/50 Sounds), only 46 characters are actually present. This is due to two awkward additives, within Kana, called "Dakuten" and "Handakuten".
Dakuten or 'ten-ten' is 1 of the 2 little marks that can be added to a character in either Hiragana or Katakana to make a new sound. It is similar to the latin quotation mark (") but is smaller and on a slight angle: ◌゙
So what sounds do they actually make? Well, when you place the dakuten mark next to a K katakana, the K is automatically changed to sound like a hard G (just like in Get)
カ (Ka) becomes ガ(Ga)....
Once placed next to a S Katakana, S is changed into a Z sound;
サ(Sa) becomes ザ (Za) ....
T Katakana becomes D:
タ (Ta) changes into ダ(Da)
H becomes B:
ハ (Ha) changes to バ (Ba)
OR
H can change into a P sound when the Handakuten* is inserted;
ハ (Ha) becomes パ (Pa)
*Handakuten, on the other hand, is a small circle much like the temperature mark in degrees celsius (°) but a lot more higher: ◌゚
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