U+3109 "ㄉ" Bopomofo Letter D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄉ
U+3109 "ㄉ" Bopomofo Letter D is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is employed in Taiwan to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters, particularly for Mandarin. This specific character represents the initial consonant sound "d" and corresponds to the Pinyin letter "d." It appears as a simplified stroke shape resembling an angled hook, and it is commonly used in educational materials, dictionaries, and input methods to teach or transcribe the standard pronunciation of Mandarin syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3109 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter D |
| Block | Bopomofo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3109 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003109 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3109 |