ㄬ
See also: 广
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Translingual
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Letter
ㄬ
- type: initial
- 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
- (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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Letter
ㄬ
- (obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
- 16th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet
Phoneme
- (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
- 16th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.
Phoneme
- sound IPA(key): /nʲ/ (Hutton): n
References
- Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198