ㄫ
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Translingual
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Letter
[edit]ㄫ
- type: initial consonant
- general transliteration: ng
Descendants
[edit]Chinese
[edit]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
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄫㄜ
- Tongyong Pinyin: nge
- Wade–Giles: ngo1
- Yale: ngē
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nge
- Palladius: нэ (nɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
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]References
[edit]- Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198
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