What ㆤ means
In Taiwanese Hokkien, it marks a close e vowel.
Chu Chao-hsiang designed a Taiwanese Bopomofo extension in 1946. The wider set of additions for Minnan (southern Min, including Taiwanese Hokkien) and Hakka is dated to 1948; it let the phonetic system represent sounds beyond Mandarin. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education included the system in 1998.
Who writes ㆤ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt marks an e vowel pronounced with less mouth opening.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㆤ display as a box?
A font without a glyph for ㆤ may show an empty box instead. The character itself is unchanged.
More like this
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Collections with ㆤ
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How to type or find ㆤ
- Search it as
- bopomofo · zhuyin · Taiwanese Hokkien · Zhao'an Hakka · Minnan phonetic symbols · ㆤ vs ㄝ · phonetic letter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ㆤCSS
\31A4Rime: Phah Tai-bun
As of 2026, Phah Tai-bun includes ㆤ in its Taiwanese phonetic-symbol menu. A Unicode character picker is another way to enter it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ㆤ
HTML hex
ㆤ
CSS content
content: "\31A4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%86%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.