U+31AF "ㆯ" Bopomofo Letter Aunn Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+31AF "ㆯ" Bopomofo Letter Aunn is a phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, primarily for transliterating Taiwanese Hokkien and other Chinese dialects. Representing a nasalized vowel sound similar to a closed "ann" pronunciation, it is part of an extended set of Bopomofo characters that accommodate sounds not found in Standard Mandarin. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Bopomofo Extended, which provides phonetic notation for linguistic studies, language education, and digital text representation of non-Mandarin Chinese languages.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㆯ
HTML Hex Encoding ㆯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x86 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x31AF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000031AF
C/C++/Java Escape \u31af

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