U+31BF "ㆿ" Bopomofo Letter Ah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆿ
U+31BF "ㆿ" Bopomofo Letter Ah is a lesser used phonetic symbol within the Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) system, which is primarily employed in Taiwan to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. This particular character, pronounced as "ah," represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative or a related vowel-like sound that appears in certain linguistic contexts, including extensions for transcribing dialectal or non-Mandarin Chinese languages. Unlike the standard Bopomofo letters that cover core Mandarin phonemes, this extended character addresses specific phonetic nuances, making it essential for precise phonetic transcription in specialized language studies or regional linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31BF |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Bopomofo Letter Ah |
| Block | Bopomofo Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31bf |