O (Cyrillic)

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
Slavic letters
А 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

O (О о; italics: О о) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

O commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel /o/, like the pronunciation of ⟨o⟩ in "go".

Contents

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

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

  1. ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 40. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 

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