ㄬ

See also: 广

ㄬ U+312C, ㄬ BOPOMOFO LETTER GN ← ㄫ [U+312B] Bopomofo ㄭ → [U+312D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄬ

1. type: initial
2. general transliteration: gn

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gnī (gni¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄬㄧ

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• 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

ㄬ

1. (obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
2. 16th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɲ/.

Usage notes

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

• 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

Letter

ㄬ

1. 16th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /nʲ/ (Hutton): n

References

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