Just a little confused because my learn Japanese playlist calls it tenten?
and sorry another random question. Wa is the topic particle putting it after the word which was the topic?
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but when you write it in a sentence you use the Ha kana but pronounce it as Wa? the YouTuber was saying?
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also is there a dakuten chart or a tenten chart that shows what each kana changes to with the two little marks next to them?
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Tenten and dakuten are the same thing
The ‘wa’ particle is the ha hiragana but is pronounced wa
You can see it in Konnichiwa/こんにちは as well
Tenten makes t->d, s->z, k->g, h->b (it changes from voiceless to voiced) Maru changes H->p
This does mean the shi し -> ji じ and both su す and tsu つ become zu ず/ づ but have different contexts. Chi -> di is another odd one
I think tenten means “dot dot”, from the fact that when you do calligraphy you literally make two dots. (The dots are not actually lines but only appear to be lines, because of the way the bristles angle when you press down on the brush. But when we do it with pencil or pen, we need to draw two short lines rather than two dots, in order to make up for the fact that the pencil or pen tip is not bristles.)
I think the reason we write ‘wa’ as ‘ha’ is because the pronunciation changed at some point historically, but the spelling was never updated. Same with the particles ‘e’ (written ‘he’) and ‘o’ (written ‘wo’).
Supplementing the other reply:
> Wa is the topic particle putting it after the word which was the topic?
Yep.
> also is there a dakuten chart or a tenten chart that shows what each kana changes to with the two little marks next to them?
[Yep.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana)