Cyrillic letter Oe
Cyrillic letter Oe.svg
Phonetic usage:[ø], [œ], [o], [wʉ], [ɤ̹̈], [ů]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АА́А̀А̂А̄ӒБВ
ГҐДЂЃЕЕ́Ѐ
Е̄Е̂ЁЄЄ́ЖЗЗ́
ЅИІІ́ЇЇ́И́Ѝ
И̂ӢЙЈКЛЉМ
НЊОО́О̀О̂ŌӦ
ПРСС́ТЋЌУ
У́У̀У̂ӮЎӰФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЪ̀Ы
Ы́ЬѢЭЭ́ЮЮ́Ю̀
ЯЯ́Я̀
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̊А̃Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃
ӚВ̌Г̑Г̇Г̣Г̌Г̂Г̆
Г̈ҔҒCyrillic capital letter Ghe with stroke and descender.svgӺҒ̌ӶCyrillic capital letter Ghe with hook.svg
Д́Д̌Д̈Д̣Д̆ӖЕ̃Ё̄
Є̈ҖӜӁЖ̣ҘӞЗ̌
З̣З̆ԐԐ̈ӠИ̃ӤҊ
ҚӃҠҞҜК̣ԚЛ́
ӅԮԒЛ̈ӍН́Ӊ
ҢԨӇҤО̆О̃Ӧ̄Ө
Ө̄Ө́Ө̆ӪԤП̈ҦР̌
ҎС̌ҪС̣С̱Т́Т̈Т̌
Т̇Т̣ҬCyrillic capital letter Te Soft-sign.svgУ̃ӲУ̊Ӱ̄
ҰҮҮ́Х̣Х̱Х̮Х̑Х̌
ҲӼӾҺԦЦ̌Ц̈Ҵ
ҶҶ̣ӴӋCyrillic capital letter Che with hook.svgҸЧ̇Ч̣
ҼҾШ̈Ш̣Ы̆Ы̄Ӹ
ҌҨЭ̆Э̄Э̇ӬӬ́
Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈
Я̈́ԜӀ
Archaic or unused letters
Cyrillic capital letter script A.svgА̨Б̀Б̣В̀Г̀Г̧Г̄
Г̓Г̆Ҕ̀Ҕ̆Cyrillic capital letter split by middle ring Ghe.svgД̓Д̀Д̨
ԀԂЕ̇Е̨Ж̑Cyrillic small letter Zhe with long middle leg and stroke through descender.svg
Cyrillic capital letter bashkir Ie.svgЏ̆Ꚅ̆З̀
З̑ԄԆԪCyrillic capital letter Shha with Cil top.svg
І̂І̨Cyrillic capital letter bashkir Dha.svgЈ̵Ј̃К̓
К̀К̆Ӄ̆К̑К̇К̈К̄Ԟ
К̂Cyrillic small letter Ka with loop.svgCyrillic small letter ka with ascender.svgЛ̀ԠԈЛ̑
Л̇ԔМ̀М̃Н̀Н̄Н̧
Н̃ԊԢН̡Ѻ
Cyrillic capital letter open at bottom O.svgП̓П́П̧
П̑ҀԚ̆Cyrillic capital letter Shha with hook.svgР́Р̀Р̃Ԗ
С̀С̈ԌҪ̓Cyrillic capital letter long Es.svgТ̓Т̀Ԏ
Т̑Т̧Ꚍ̆Cyrillic small letter Te El Soft-sign.svgCyrillic small letter voiceless L with comma above.svgѸ
Cyrillic capital letter script U.svgУ̇У̨Ф̑Ф̓Х́Х̀
Х̆Х̇Х̧Х̓Cyrillic capital letter bashkir Ha.svgѠѼ
ѾЦ́Ц̓Cyrillic capital letter Tse with long left leg.svgꚎ̆Cyrillic capital letter Cil.svg
Cyrillic capital letter Cil with bar.svgЧ́Ч̀Ч̑Ч̓Cyrillic capital letter Char.svgԬ
Ꚇ̆Ҽ̆Ш̆Ш̑Щ̆
Ꚗ̆Cyrillic capital letter Che Sha.svgЫ̂Ы̃Ѣ́Ѣ̈
Ѣ̆Э̨Ю̂Я̂Я̨
ԘѤѦѪѨ
ѬѮѰѲѴѶ

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

Shape

Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif and other alphabets. Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the Greek letter theta (Θ θ/ϑ) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ 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, Khanty, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Tuvan, Mongolian, and Yakut languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ and /œ/, except in Mongolian where it represents /o:/ or /ɵ/. 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 2018, there were proposals to use ⟨Ó⟩ as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as ⟨Ö⟩.

In Tuvan, Kyrgyz and Mongolian the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2][3]

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ө ө
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
BARRED O
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
BARRED O
Encodings decimal hex dec 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. ^ "Кыргызский язык / Фонетика / Гласные". Кыргызский язык. TamgaSoft. 2016. Retrieved 1 Sep 2017.
  3. ^ Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). Compendium of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.