ㄬ

See also: 广

ㄬ	U+312C, ㄬ BOPOMOFO LETTER GN

← ㄫ
[U+312B]

Bopomofo

ㄭ →
[U+312D]

Translingual edit

Stroke order

Letter edit

ㄬ

type: initial
general transliteration: gn

Chinese edit

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ㄬ

Glyph origin edit

Derived from 广 (yǎn), Kangxi radical 53 "dotted cliff".

Etymology edit

Derived from Old National Pronunciation of 广 (yǎn), Kangxi radical 53 "dotted cliff".

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gnī (gni¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄬㄧ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gnī
  - Zhuyin: ㄬㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gni
  - Wade–Giles: gni¹
  - Yale: gnī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gnhi
  - Palladius: гnи (gni)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɲi⁵⁵/

Letter edit

ㄬ

(obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
16th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme edit

(general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɲ/.

Usage notes edit

The letter was used to represent /ɲ/ in the Old National Pronunciation (1913–1932). Now it is only used for dialectal pronunciations. In the old alphabet, it was the 16th letter, between ㄑ and ㄒ.

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

ㄬ

16th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme edit

sound IPA^(key): /nʲ/ (Hutton): n

References edit

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