What ㆢ means
It marks a starting consonant in Taiwanese Zhuyin. Taiwanese Hokkien spellings use ㆢ for a consonant sound, not a full syllable. Add the vowel-and-ending part (called the rhyme) and a tone mark: ㆢㄧ is a documented spelling for 二, “two.”
Mandarin Zhuyin is a set of sound symbols used to annotate Mandarin pronunciation; the Taiwanese extension added sounds its base set could not represent. Quanzhou readings begin with a brief d-like stop before a buzzy hiss made near the front of the mouth; Zhangzhou readings use the hiss without that stop. The Taiwanese phonetic extension is dated 1946; the design for Southern Min (Minnan) and Hakka is dated 1948.
Who writes ㆢ
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1
Related characters
1
Questions people ask
1Why does ㆢ show as a box?
The font cannot display this extended Bopomofo character. A font with Bopomofo Extended coverage can show it.
More like this
8
Collections with ㆢ
2
How to type or find ㆢ
- Search it as
- Taiwanese Zhuyin · Taiwanese phonetic symbols · Taiwanese Hokkien · ㆢㄧ˫ · Bopomofo Extended
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ㆢ\31A2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.