- Oe (Cyrillic)
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Cyrillic letter Oe 
Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+04E8 minuscule: U+04E9 Cyrillic script
Slavic lettersА Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я Non-Slavic letters Ӑ Ӓ Ә Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚉ Ӗ Ӂ Җ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ Ӧ Ө Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ Ӯ Ӱ Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ҵ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ӹ Ҍ Ӭ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ Archaic letters Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ Ꙓ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs Oe or Barred O (Ө ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Shape
Its form was copied from the Latin letter Barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in Jaŋalif and other alphabets. Despite having a similar shape, it is genetically related neither to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/ϑ) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter Fita (Ѳ ѳ). However, traditional forms of Cyrillic Oe and Fita (since the 18th century) 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 inside). In traditional typography, shape of the inner line depends on typeface, not on meaning of the letter: both Oe and Fita may contain the line straight or waving.
Usage
Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Yakut languages, where it represents the open-mid front rounded vowel /œ/. In Kazakh, this letter may also express /wʉ/.
Oe is most commonly romanized as ⟨Ö⟩; but its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨ô⟩.
Computing codes
character Ө ө Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
BARRED OCYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
BARRED Ocharacter encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 1256 04E8 1257 04E9 UTF-8 211 168 D3 A8 211 169 D3 A9 Numeric character reference Ө Ө ө ө See also
- О о : Cyrillic letter O
- Ӧ ӧ : Cyrillic letter O with diaeresis
- Ӫ ӫ : Cyrillic letter Oe with diaeresis
Categories:- Cyrillic letters
- Vowel letters
- Tatar language
- Writing system stubs
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