U+31AD "ㆭ" Bopomofo Letter Ngg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆭ
U+31AD "ㆭ" Bopomofo Letter Ngg is a phonetic symbol used in the extended Bopomofo system, primarily for representing the voiced velar nasal sound (like the "ng" in "sing") in certain dialects of Chinese, such as Taiwanese Hokkien or Hakka, where it serves as a distinct initial consonant. It appears in the Unicode block for Bopomofo Extended, which was added to support phonetic transcription beyond standard Mandarin, and it is often used in linguistic or educational contexts to accurately depict non-Mandarin phonemes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31AD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Ngg |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31ad |