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Translingual
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Letter
ㄖ
- type: initial consonant
- general transliteration: r
- keyboard key: B
- ⿻口·, that is 口 radical with a dot inside.
Chinese
Glyph origin
Derived from the oracle bone script , bronze inscription , or seal script form of 日 (Mandarin: rì), "day, sun".
Etymology
Initial consonant derived from 日 (Mandarin: rì), "day, sun" + rhyme.
Pronunciation
Letter
- 18th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
- 26th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet
Phoneme
- (when followed by a rhyme) Sound IPA(key): /ɻ~ʐ/ help (Pinyin: r), which is present only in Mandarin dialects.
- (when standing alone) Sound IPA(key): /ʐ̩/ help (Pinyin: ri).
- alt. forms: ㄖㄭ obsolete, analytic
- (when followed by ㄭ) Sound IPA(key): /ʐ̩/ help (Pinyin: ri).
- (Hakka, Fuzhou) Sound IPA(key): /ʒ/ (Pinyin: r)
References
Northern Qiandong Miao
Letter
- 21st letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.
Phoneme
- sound IPA(key): /ɹ/ (Hutton): r, rï
References
- Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198