U+312F "ㄯ" Bopomofo Letter Nn Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+312F "ㄯ" Bopomofo Letter Nn is a rarely used phonetic symbol in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) writing system, which is primarily employed in Taiwan to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters, especially for Mandarin. This particular letter represents the consonant sound "nn," a syllabic nasal similar to the final "n" in English but functioning as its own syllable, as in some dialects or in the transcription of certain phonetic contexts. It is part of the Bopomofo Extended block of Unicode and, while not a standard element in everyday Bopomofo usage, it appears in specialized linguistic materials or phonetic notations to capture fine distinctions in spoken language.

General Properties

Code Point U+312F
Version Added 11.0
Name Bopomofo Letter Nn
Block Bopomofo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㄯ
HTML Hex Encoding ㄯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x84 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x312F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000312F
C/C++/Java Escape \u312f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Bopomofo
Script Extensions Bopomofo
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter