U+31B3 "ㆳ" Bopomofo Letter Innn Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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