U+31A9 "ㆩ" Bopomofo Letter Ann Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆩ
U+31A9 "ㆩ" Bopomofo Letter Ann is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo system, which is a transliteration script for Mandarin Chinese and other Chinese languages. This particular character represents a nasalized vowel sound, specifically the "ann" sound, and is utilized in phonetic notation to indicate pronunciation in certain Chinese dialects or in scholarly linguistic contexts. It is part of the Bopomofo Extended block in Unicode, which includes additional letters beyond the standard set to cover sounds found in minority languages or dialectal variations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31A9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Ann |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31a9 |