ㄥ

ㄥ	U+3125, ㄥ BOPOMOFO LETTER ENG

← ㄤ
[U+3124]

Bopomofo

ㄦ →
[U+3126]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄥ

type: nasal rhyme
general transliteration: eng
keyboard key: /

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from 𠃋 (gōng), an ancient form of 肱 (gōng) (Mandarin: gōng)

Etymology

Derived from 𠃋 (gōng), an ancient form of 肱 (gōng) (Mandarin: gōng)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ēng (eng¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄥ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: eng
  - Wade–Giles: êng¹
  - Yale: ēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eng
  - Palladius: эн (en)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤŋ⁵⁵/

Letter

33rd letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
55th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

(general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɤŋ/ (Pinyin: eng), which is present only in Mandarin.
(when pronounced alone) Sound IPA^(key): /ˀɤŋ/ (Pinyin: eng)
(after ㄧ, ㄨ, or ㄩ) Sound IPA^(key): /ŋ/ (Pinyin: ng)

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

42nd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

sound IPA^(key): /əŋ/ (Hutton): eng

References

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