- O (Cyrillic)
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Not to be confused with the Latin letter O.
Cyrillic letter O 
Cyrillic numerals: 70 Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+041E minuscule: U+043E Cyrillic script
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O commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel /o/, like the pronunciation of ⟨o⟩ in "go".
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History
The Cyrillic letter O was derived from the Greek letter Omicron (Ο ο).
The name of O in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was онъ (onŭ), meaning "he" or "it".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, O had a value of 70.
Form
The Cyrillic letter O looks exactly like the Latin letter O ⟨O o⟩ and the Greek letter Omicron ⟨Ο ο⟩.
Usage
In Russian, O is used word-initially, after another vowel, and after non-palatalized consonants. Because of a vowel reduction processes, the Russian /o/ phoneme may have a number of pronunciations in unstressed syllables, including [ɐ] and [ə].
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ο ο : Greek letter Omicron
- O o : Latin letter O
- Ё ё : Cyrillic letter Yo
- Ѻ ѻ : Cyrillic letter Broad On
- Ӧ ӧ : Cyrillic letter O with diaeresis
- Ө ө : Cyrillic letter Oe
- Ӫ ӫ : Cyrillic letter Oe with diaeresis
- Ҩ ҩ : Cyrillic letter O-hook
Computing codes
character О о Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O character encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode[1] 1054 041E 1086 043E UTF-8 208 158 D0 9E 208 190 D0 BE Numeric character reference О О о о KOI8-R and KOI8-U 239 EF 207 CF CP 855 215 D7 214 D6 Windows-1251 206 CE 238 EE ISO-8859-5 190 BE 222 DE Mac Cyrillic 142 8E 238 EE References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 40. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
External links
The Wiktionary definition of О- The Wiktionary definition of о
Categories:- Cyrillic letters
- Vowel letters
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