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/

Letter

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

Phoneme

1. (general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɑʊ̯/ (Pinyin: ao), which is present in Chinese apart from Wu dialects and Fuzhou dialect.
2. (when pronounced alone) Sound IPA^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯/ (Pinyin: ao)
3. (Fuzhou dialect, Shanghainese) Sound IPA^(key): /ɔ/
4. (Wu) Sound IPA^(key): /aɐ/ (Pinyin: ao)

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

1. 37th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /au/ (Hutton): ao

References

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