U+3129 "ㄩ" Bopomofo Letter Iu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄩ
U+3129 "ㄩ" Bopomofo Letter Iu is a phonetic symbol used in the Zhuyin Fuhao (Bopomofo) system, which is employed primarily in Taiwan to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. This specific character denotes the vowel sound "iu," which is pronounced like the "ü" in German or the "u" in the French word "tu," corresponding to the pinyin representation "ü." In Mandarin, it appears in syllables such as "yu" (like in 魚, meaning fish) and is an essential component for teaching and transcribing correct pronunciation, especially in elementary education and language learning contexts. Visually, "ㄩ" resembles a curving, almost horseshoe-like shape, and it occupies a specific place in the standard Bopomofo chart among the other vowel symbols.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3129 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Iu |
| Block | Bopomofo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3129 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003129 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3129 |