What ㆪ means
It extends basic Bopomofo ㄧ by nasalizing its vowel. Bopomofo’s basic set teaches Mandarin pronunciation. In ㄊㆪˊ, ˊ is a tone mark after ㆪ.
Taiwanese phonetic symbols adapt Mandarin Bopomofo to add sounds for Minnan (including Taiwanese Hokkien) and Hakka. Chu Chao-hsiang developed the extension in 1946; the 24-character Minnan and Hakka set is dated to 1948.
Specialist phonetic notation for Taiwanese Hokkien pronunciation.
Plain ㄧ lacks ㆪ’s nasal sound.
Who writes ㆪ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㆪ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ㆪ
- Also called
- inn · iⁿ
- Search it as
- zhuyin · bopomofo · Hokkien · Minnan · nasalized vowel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ㆪCSS
\31AAWSL Taiwanese input method
Academia Sinica’s 2012 WSL layout maps ㆪ to Shiftu. A 2026 CNS11643 note warns that default Windows fonts may lack its glyph.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ㆪ
HTML hex
ㆪ
CSS content
content: "\31AA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%86%AA
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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.