U+31A6 "ㆦ" Bopomofo Letter Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆦ
U+31A6 "ㆦ" Bopomofo Letter Oo is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, primarily for transliterating certain sounds in Mandarin Chinese and minority languages like Hokkien and Hakka. It represents a close-mid back rounded vowel sound, similar to the "o" in the English word "go" but with a more precise articulation, and is often employed in linguistic or educational contexts to annotate pronunciation in dictionaries and language learning materials. This character, part of the Bopomofo Extended block, specifically denotes a distinct vowel phoneme that appears in Taiwanese Hokkien, distinguishing it from the standard Mandarin "o" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31A6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Oo |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31a6 |