ㄯ
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Translingual
Letter
ㄯ
- type: syllabic consonant
- general transliteration: n̩
Chinese
Glyph origin
Bopomofo letter ㄋ (nē) with a vertical line (丨 (gǔn)), which represents a syllabic consonant.
Letter
ㄯ
- (rare, archaic) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet representing the sound IPA(key): /n̩/ (Pinyin: n)
- alt. forms: ㄋ (nē)
Usage notes
- This representation of a character appears mostly in earlier works, most notably 國語辭典／国语辞典 , but still appearing in some Taiwanese texts.
References
- 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
- Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf
- West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode one Bopomofo letter