U+31A3 "ㆣ" Bopomofo Letter Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆣ
U+31A3 "ㆣ" Bopomofo Letter Gu is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is primarily employed in Taiwan to transcribe the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. This specific character represents the consonant sound "g" in the Bopomofo notation, corresponding to the initial consonant in syllables like "gu." It is part of a set of extended Bopomofo letters that were standardized in Unicode to support the full range of sounds in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, aiding in language education and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31A3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Gu |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31a3 |