Open O

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Ɔ
Ɔ ɔ
Upper and lower case Open O
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and Logographic
Unicode codepointU+0186, U+0254
History
Development
  • Ɔ ɔ
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Open o or turned c (

African reference alphabet
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The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ to transcribe the alveolar ejective affricate [t͡sʼ] consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tsʼ is preferred.

Unicode

Character information
Preview Ɔ ɔ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 390 U+0186 596 U+0254
UTF-8 198 134 C6 86 201 148 C9 94
Numeric character reference Ɔ Ɔ ɔ ɔ

On the macOS US Extended keyboard, ɔ and Ɔ can be typed with ⌥ Option+: followed by c or C.[citation needed]

Related characters

Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet

  • Ɔ with
    [1]
  • Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to Ɔ :[2]
    • U+1D10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OPEN O
    • U+1D12 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS OPEN O
    • U+1D53 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O

Similar looking letters

The first of these Claudian letters is the antisigma.

Open o looks like a reversed letter 'C'.

antisigma
) with the intention of replacing bs and ps.

Definition from Aasen (1873), Norsk ordbog med dansk forklaring, showing the Danish explanatory symbol “ɔ:”.

The

Scandinavian explanatory symbol (forklaringstegnet) can be typeset using the open o followed by a colon, thus: ɔ:. It is used to mean "namely", "id est", "scilicet" or similar.[3]

This letter is often used to refer to the Copyleft official sign, which looks like an open o with a circle around it.

See also

References

  1. ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
  2. ^ Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Forklaringstegnet: en savnet del av det typografiske repertoar?". Typografi i Norge (in Norwegian). 2006-08-02 [last updated 2010-09-29]. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05.


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