U+31B3 "ㆳ" Bopomofo Letter Innn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆳ
U+31B3 "ㆳ" Bopomofo Letter Innn is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is a script primarily employed in Taiwan to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters, particularly for Mandarin. This specific letter represents the sound "innn," a nasal vowel with a prolonged or emphatic quality, and it is part of a set of extended Bopomofo characters designed to capture nuanced or dialectal phonetic distinctions not covered by the standard inventory. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be digitally represented and processed in modern text systems, supporting accurate linguistic documentation and education for Chinese phonetics and related scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31B3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Innn |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31b3 |