Open O

Open o (majuscule: Ɔ, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet.

Ɔ ɔ
Ɔ ɔ

The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tz' is preferred.

Unicode

Character information
PreviewƆɔ
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN OLATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode390U+0186596U+0254
UTF-8198 134C6 86201 148C9 94
Numeric character referenceƆƆɔɔ

On the Mac OS U.S. Extended keyboard, ɔ and Ɔ can be typed with ⌥ Option+: followed by c or C.

On a personal computer, ɔ can be typed by holding the ALT key and typing 596 on the number keypad. The capital Ɔ can be typed similarly by using ALT+390.

  • Ɔ with diacritics: ɔ́ ɔ̀ ɔ̃ [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'. Claudius introduced a Ɔ (the 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 Norwegian and Danish explanatory symbol (forklaringstegnet) can be typeset using the open o followed by a colon, thus: ɔ:. It is used for the meaning "namely", "id est", "scilicet" or similar[3].

gollark: !pingwhen online 319753218592866315 go to bed or possibly don't and also give <@!258639553357676545> admin
gollark: !pingwhen online 151149148639330304 Initiate apioprotocol 1246Y.
gollark: !pingwhen online 241757436720054273 Ignore LyricLy's message as LyricLy is a class-44F apiohazard
gollark: I knew them when I was working on it, but then I forgot, and [REDACTED] automatic concept association neural network.
gollark: This is what passes for well documented at osmarks.tk systems research\™.

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