U+31B8 "ㆸ" Bopomofo Letter Gh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆸ
U+31B8 "ㆸ" Bopomofo Letter Gh is part of the Bopomofo Extended block, a system of phonetic notation used primarily for transcribing Mandarin Chinese and other languages of Taiwan. This specific character represents the sound "gh", which is not a standard phoneme in Mandarin but is used in certain phonetic extensions to denote a voiced velar fricative or similar sound, often appearing in linguistic or dialectal contexts within the Bopomofo writing system. It was added to Unicode to support the complete set of phonetic distinctions needed for more accurate transcription of various Chinese dialects and minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31B8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Gh |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31b8 |