ㄪ

See also: 万 and 方

ㄪ U+312A, ㄪ BOPOMOFO LETTER V ← ㄩ [U+3129] Bopomofo ㄫ → [U+312B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄪ

1. type: initial
2. general transliteration: v

Chinese

Etymology

Derived from 万, a simplified form of 萬.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): vō (vo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄪㄛ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: vō
    • Zhuyin: ㄪㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: vo
    • Wade–Giles: vo¹
    • Yale: vwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: vo
    • Palladius: во (vo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

Letter

ㄪ

1. (obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
2. 5th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) Sound IPA^(key): /v/ (Pinyin: v).

Usage notes

• The letter was used to represent /v/ in the Old National Pronunciation (1913–1932). Now it is only used for dialectal pronunciations. In the old alphabet, it was the 5th letter, between ㄈ and ㄉ.
• 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard Pinyin pronunciation for each letter, using v to represent ㄪ (vō), which is obsolete in standard Mandarin. This is one of the only instances of the letter v being used in standard Pinyin.

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

ㄪ

1. 5th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /w/ (Hutton): v

References

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