ㄠ

See also: 幺 and ㆯ

ㄠ U+3120, ㄠ BOPOMOFO LETTER AU ← ㄟ [U+311F] Bopomofo ㄡ → [U+3121]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄠ

1. type: diphthong rhyme
2. general transliteration: ao
3. keyboard key: L

Descendants

• ㆯ

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from 幺 (Mandarin: yāo) "tiny".

Etymology

Derived from 幺 (Mandarin: yāo) "tiny".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āo (ao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: āo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ao
    • Wade–Giles: ao¹
    • Yale: āu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: au
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

(general) Phoneme:

Audio (Pinyin); “ao” /ɑʊ̯/:

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(when pronounced alone) Phoneme:

Audio (Pinyin); “ao” /ˀɑʊ̯/:

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(Fuzhou variety, Shanghainese) Phoneme: IPA^(key): /ɔ/

(Wu) Phoneme: IPA^(key): /aɐ/ (Pinyin: ao)

Letter

ㄠ

1. 28th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 43rd letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

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

Pronunciation

• Phoneme: IPA^(key): /au/

Letter

ㄠ (ao) (Hutton)

1. 37th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet

References

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