ㄫ

See also: π and 兀

ㄫ	U+312B, ㄫ BOPOMOFO LETTER NG

← ㄪ
[U+312A]

Bopomofo

ㄬ →
[U+312C]

Translingual edit

Stroke order

Letter edit

ㄫ

type: initial consonant
general transliteration: ng

Descendants edit

ㆭ

Chinese edit

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Glyph origin edit

Derived from 兀 (Mandarin: wù), "towering".

Etymology edit

Initial consonant derived from Old National Pronunciation of 兀 (Mandarin: wù), "towering".

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ngē (nge¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄫㄜ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ngē
  - Zhuyin: ㄫㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nge
  - Wade–Giles: ngo¹
  - Yale: ngē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nge
  - Palladius: нэ (nɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɤ⁵⁵/

Letter edit

ㄫ

(when used in a syllable without a rhyme) An additional letter of Zhuyin alphabet, used as a modern alternative to (simplification of) ㆭ, representing the sound /ŋ̍/, transliterating characters such as 㕶, 哽, 唔, 嗯, 𠮾, and 唵.
alt. forms: ㆭ
(obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
12th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Usage notes edit

The letter was used to represent /ŋ/ in the Old National Pronunciation (1913–1932). Now it is only used for dialectal pronunciations or for transcription of six characters listed under sense 1. The character is not used very often and is not present on most keyboards. In the old alphabet, it was the 12th letter, between ㄎ and ㄏ.

References edit

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

Northern Qiandong Miao edit

Letter edit

ㄫ

12th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme edit

sound IPA^(key): /ŋ/ (Hutton): ng

References edit

Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198