Ɵ

Ɵ ɵ

Barred o (

lowercase: ɵ) is a letter in several Latin-script alphabets

Historic examples include the

Uniform Turkic Alphabet (including its versions like Jaꞑalif and the Azerbaijani alphabet used between 1933 and 1939), in which it represented the open-mid front rounded vowel

In many alphabets it was replaced by the

Ө ө in 1939. In Azerbaijani, it was again replaced by the Latin letter Ö ö

The

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [ɵ] (originally a closed e, later reinterpreted as a barred o) represents the close-mid central rounded vowel.

The letter is not to be confused with the

Plimsoll symbol

(⦵), despite their similar shapes.

Unicode

Character information
Preview	Ɵ		ɵ		ᶱ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MIDDLE TILDE		LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED O		MODIFIER LETTER SMALL BARRED O
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	415	U+019F	629	U+0275	7601	U+1DB1
UTF-8	198 159	C6 9F	201 181	C9 B5	225 182 177	E1 B6 B1
Numeric character reference	Ɵ	Ɵ	ɵ	ɵ	ᶱ	ᶱ