Where does “dakuten” come from?

dakuten (English) comes from Japanese 濁点, from Japanese 点, from Middle Chinese 點 — mark, spot; dot, mark.

dakuten (English): A diacritic used with Japanese kana to mark a...

Definitions

  1. A diacritic used with Japanese kana to mark a...

Ancestry of “dakuten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese濁点a voicing diacritical mark, such as ゛ on が, used...
2Japanese点spot, dot; score, grade, mark; point
3Middle Chinese點mark, spot; dot, mark
Every word from Middle Chinese 點 →Every word from Japanese 点 →Every word from Japanese 濁点 →