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Bopomofo

U+3100 – U+312F   (12544–12591)

Bopomofo, also known as Jhuyin Fuhao, Jhuyin, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols I and MPS I, is a phonetic system for transcribing Mandarin Chinese, intended for people learning to read, write or speak Mandarin.

There are more of these characters in the Bopomofo Extended range.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts ALPHABETUM Unicode, AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arial Unicode MS, BabelStone Han, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, HAN NOM A, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, MS Hei, MS Song, MSung Std Acro, NSimSun, NSimSun-18030, PMingLiU, Roman Unicode, SimHei, SimSun, SimSun-18030, STSong Std Acro, Sun-ExtA, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, TSC FMing S TT, TSC JSong S TT, WenQuanYi Zen Hei, and WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, Beijing, BiauKai, Fang Song, Hei, Kai, Song and Taipei; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, Beijing, BiauKai, Fang Song, Hei, Kai, PMingLiU, SimSun, Song, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong and Taipei.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
125493105BOPOMOFO LETTER B
125503106BOPOMOFO LETTER P
125513107BOPOMOFO LETTER M
125523108BOPOMOFO LETTER F
125533109BOPOMOFO LETTER D
12554310ABOPOMOFO LETTER T
12555310BBOPOMOFO LETTER N
12556310CBOPOMOFO LETTER L
12557310DBOPOMOFO LETTER G
12558310EBOPOMOFO LETTER K
12559310FBOPOMOFO LETTER H
125603110BOPOMOFO LETTER J
125613111BOPOMOFO LETTER Q
125623112BOPOMOFO LETTER X
125633113BOPOMOFO LETTER ZH
125643114BOPOMOFO LETTER CH
125653115BOPOMOFO LETTER SH
125663116BOPOMOFO LETTER R
125673117BOPOMOFO LETTER Z
125683118BOPOMOFO LETTER C
125693119BOPOMOFO LETTER S
12570311ABOPOMOFO LETTER A
12571311BBOPOMOFO LETTER O
12572311CBOPOMOFO LETTER E
12573311DBOPOMOFO LETTER EH
12574311EBOPOMOFO LETTER AI
12575311FBOPOMOFO LETTER EI
125763120BOPOMOFO LETTER AU
125773121BOPOMOFO LETTER OU
125783122BOPOMOFO LETTER AN
125793123BOPOMOFO LETTER EN
125803124BOPOMOFO LETTER ANG
125813125BOPOMOFO LETTER ENG
125823126BOPOMOFO LETTER ER
125833127BOPOMOFO LETTER I
125843128BOPOMOFO LETTER U
125853129BOPOMOFO LETTER IU
12586312ABOPOMOFO LETTER V
12587312BBOPOMOFO LETTER NG
12588312CBOPOMOFO LETTER GN
12589312DBOPOMOFO LETTER IH

Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2008 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2008.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 7th November 2010

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