Bopomofo (Unicode block)

See also: Bopomofo Extended (Unicode block)

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

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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Spacing Modifier Letters (Unicode block) has two Bopomofo characters: U+02EA–U+02EB