U+31A4 "ㆤ" Bopomofo Letter Ee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+31A4 "ㆤ" Bopomofo Letter Ee is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (or Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is a set of characters employed primarily in Taiwan to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. This particular character corresponds to the vowel sound "ee" or [e] in phonetic notation, similar to the pronunciation of the vowel in the English word "may" but without the off-glide. It is distinct from other Bopomofo symbols that represent different vowel sounds and is used in combination with initial consonants to form complete syllables. In modern standard Mandarin, the Bopomofo letter Ee is less common than some other vowel symbols, but it remains an essential component of the system for accurately transcribing certain sounds in educational materials and keyboard input methods.

General Properties

Code Point U+31A4
Version Added 3.0
Name Bopomofo Letter Ee
Block Bopomofo Extended
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㆤ
HTML Hex Encoding ㆤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x86 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x31A4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000031A4
C/C++/Java Escape \u31a4

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