What ㆨ means
The tongue rises between the “ee” and “oo” positions.
Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols grew from Mandarin Bopomofo in 1946. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education included ㆨ in Fangyin, its Taiwanese pronunciation system, in 1998.
Some Quanzhou-leaning Taiwanese descriptions use it to distinguish this vowel from the “ee”-like and “oo”-like vowels. That distinction varies by dialect, so ㆨ is not a universal spelling across Taiwanese speech.
Who writes ㆨ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㆨ show as a box?
Your font is missing the glyph. Taiwan’s CNS11643 character record says, as of 2026, the Windows default font lacks it; a font with Bopomofo Extended support can display it.
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How to type or find ㆨ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ㆨCSS
\31A8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ㆨ
HTML hex
ㆨ
CSS content
content: "\31A8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%86%A8
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.