Bopomofo (Unicode block)

See also: Bopomofo Extended (Unicode block)
Bopomofo
RangeU+3100..U+312F
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBopomofo
Major alphabetsPhonetic Chinese
Assigned43 code points
Unused5 reserved code points
Source standardsGB 2312
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)40 (+40)
5.1 (2008)41 (+1)
10.0 (2017)42 (+1)
11.0 (2018)43 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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Bopomofo is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters for Chinese. The original set of 40 Bopomofo characters is based on the Chinese standard GB 2312. Additional Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo Extended block.

Block

Bopomofo[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+310x ㄅ ㄆ ㄇ ㄈ ㄉ ㄊ ㄋ ㄌ ㄍ ㄎ ㄏ
U+311x ㄐ ㄑ ㄒ ㄓ ㄔ ㄕ ㄖ ㄗ ㄘ ㄙ ㄚ ㄛ ㄜ ㄝ ㄞ ㄟ
U+312x ㄠ ㄡ ㄢ ㄣ ㄤ ㄥ ㄦ ㄧ ㄨ ㄩ ㄪ ㄫ ㄬ ㄭ ㄮ ㄯ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bopomofo block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+3105..312C 40 (to be determined)
L2/14-189 Lunde, Ken (2014-08-01), BOPOMOFO LETTER I
N4609 Reply to your company's inquiry to usage of Bopomofo Letter I, 2014-08-20
L2/14-177 Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Bopomofo Letter I (B.15.1)", UTC #140 Minutes
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11u", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rotate the glyph for 3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I by 90 degrees, with an appropriate change in the annotation, per request in document N4609
5.1 U+312D 1 L2/06-338 N3179 Everson, Michael; Ho, H. W.; West, Andrew (2006-10-19), Proposal to encode one Bopomofo character in the UCS
L2/06-324R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C24", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/07-215 N3246 Proposal to encode two Bopomofo characters in UCS, 2007-04-20
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.19", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
10.0 U+312E 1 L2/15-284 N4695 West, Andrew; Liang, Hai (2015-10-22), Discussion of 2CEF1
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C20", UTC #145 Minutes, Approve U+312E BOPOMOFO LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE for encoding in a future version of the standard. See document L2/15-270.
N4739 "M64.05e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0 U+312F 1 L2/16-106 N4717 West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode one Bopomofo letter
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "C.16", UTC #147 Minutes
N4756 TCA Feedback on JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4717, 2016-09-22
N4873R (pdf, doc) "7.2.1 T1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.