Bopomofo Extended

See also: Bopomofo (Unicode block)

Bopomofo Extended is a Unicode block containing additional Bopomofo characters for writing phonetic Min Nan, Hakka Chinese, Cantonese, Hmu, and Ge. The basic set of Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo block.

Bopomofo Extended
Range	U+31A0..U+31BF (32 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Bopomofo
Major alphabets	phonetic Min Nan and Hakka
Assigned	32 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)	24 (+24)
6.0 (2010)	27 (+3)
13.0 (2020)	32 (+5)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Bopomofo Extended[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+31Ax

ㆠ

ㆡ

ㆢ

ㆣ

ㆤ

ㆥ

ㆦ

ㆧ

ㆨ

ㆩ

ㆪ

ㆫ

ㆬ

ㆭ

ㆮ

ㆯ

U+31Bx

ㆰ

ㆱ

ㆲ

ㆳ

ㆴ

ㆵ

ㆶ

ㆷ

ㆸ

ㆹ

ㆺ

ㆻ

ㆼ

ㆽ

ㆾ

ㆿ

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
3.0	U+31A0..31B7	24	L2/98-090	N1713R	Proposal to add 24 extended Bopomofo and 2 modifier letters for Minnan and Hakka, 1998-03-19
			L2/98-158		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Bopomofo Extensions", Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.25", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/98-321	N1905	Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22
			L2/18-255	N4980	Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter
6.0	U+31B8..31BA	3	L2/09-049	N3570	West, Andrew (2009-01-25), Proposal to encode three Bopomofo letters for Hmu and Ge
			L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.15", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
13.0	U+31BB	1	L2/18-255	N4980	Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter
			L2/18-183		Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.21", UTC #156 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
	U+31BC..31BF	4	L2/19-100		Chan, Eiso (2019-04-08), Preliminary proposal to encode four extended Bopomofo letters for Cantonese
			L2/19-173		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "18", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
			L2/19-177R	N5052	Yang, Ben; Chan, Eiso (2019-05-02), Proposal to encode Cantonese Bopomofo Characters
			L2/19-122		Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C21", UTC #159 Minutes
				N5122	"M68.10 and M68.19", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
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