ㄪ

ㄪ

• type: initial
• general transliteration: v

Derived from 万, a simplified form of 萬.

ㄪ

1. (obsolete) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet.
2. 6th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

1. (general) Sound IPA^(key): /v/ (Pinyin: v).

• The letter was used to represent /v/ in the Old National Pronunciation (1913–1932). Now it is only used for dialectal pronunciations. In the old alphabet, it was the 5th letter, between ㄈ and ㄉ.
• 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard Pinyin pronunciation for each letter, using v to represent ㄪ, which is obsolete in standard Mandarin. This is one of the only instances of the letter v being used in standard Pinyin.

• 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

ㄪ

1. 5th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

1. sound IPA^(key): /w/ (Hutton): v

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