Oe (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with Œ.
"Ө" redirects here. It is not to be confused with early Cyrillic Ѳ (fita) or Greek Θ (theta).
Cyrillic letter Oe
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̄А̊А̃ӒӒ̄Ә
Ә́Ә̃ӚӔҒГ̧Г̑
Г̄ҔӺӶԀԂ
ԪԬӖЕ̄Е̃
Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜԄ
ҘӞԐԐ̈ӠԆӢ
И̃ҊӤҚӃҠҞ
ҜԞԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪԌҬ
ԎУ̃ӮӰӰ́Ӳ
ҮҮ́ҰХ̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦҴҶ
ӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

Oe or barred O ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Shape

Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif and other alphabets. Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the Greek letter theta θ/ϑ) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter fita ѳ). However, traditional forms of Cyrillic fita (since the 18th century) and oe are identical, and designers of Unicode's sample font were probably the first ones who split glyphs of the two letters (providing Oe with a horizontal bar and Fita with a tilde-shaped bar inside). In traditional typography, the shape of the inner line depends on typeface, not on meaning of the letter: the bar in both oe and fita may either be straight or wavy.

Usage

Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tuvan, Mongolian, and Yakut languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ and /œ/, except in Mongolian where it represents /o/. In Kazakh, this letter may also express /wʉ/. Recently, the letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the Komi-Yazva language, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel /ɤ̹̈/. The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart, ɵ, to represent the close-mid central rounded vowel, and sometimes also the mid central rounded vowel.

Oe is most commonly romanized as Ö; but its ISO 9 transliteration is ô.

In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2]

Computing codes

Character Ө ө
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
BARRED O
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
BARRED O
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1256 U+04E8 1257 U+04E9
UTF-8 211 168 D3 A8 211 169 D3 A9
Numeric character reference Ө Ө ө ө

See also

References

  1. "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). "Compendium of the World's Languages". Routledge. Retrieved 14 June 2016 via Google Books.
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