U+3126 "ㄦ" Bopomofo Letter Er Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄦ
U+3126 "ㄦ" Bopomofo Letter Er is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is the Mandarin Chinese transliteration and literacy tool primarily employed in Taiwan. This specific character represents the retroflex vowel sound known as "er," often transcribed as "er" in Pinyin, and it corresponds to the final sound found in words like 二 (èr, meaning "two") or 耳 (ěr, meaning "ear"). As one of the 37 standard Bopomofo letters, it is typically written as a simplified, angular form that aids learners in associating the symbol with its pronunciation without relying on Latin alphabet conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3126 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Er |
| Block | Bopomofo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3126 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003126 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3126 |