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.
| Bopomofo | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+3100..U+312F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Bopomofo |
| Major alphabets | Phonetic Chinese |
| Assigned | 43 code points |
| Unused | 5 reserved code points |
| Source standards | GB 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] | |
Block
edit| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe 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 | ||||
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See also
edit- Spacing Modifier Letters (Unicode block) has two Bopomofo characters: U+02EA–U+02EB
References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.