Ө
The Ө, ө [ œ ] is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet . In the languages that use it, it stands for the rounded, half-open front tongue vowel , with the pronunciation lying roughly between an 'o' and an open 'ö' , similar to, for example, in the word 'hell' or 'grains' .
use
This letter is used in the following seven languages: the Turkic languages Bashkir , Kazakh , Kyrgyz and Yakut as well as the Mongolian languages Mongolian , Buryat and Kalmuck . In Kazakh, the letter also corresponds to the sequence of sounds [ wʉ ].
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Ө | Minuscule ө | |
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| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 04E8 | U + 04E9 |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BARRED O | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BARRED O | |
| UTF-8 | D3 A8 | D3 A9 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
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| hexadecimal |
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Formal similarities with other letters
- the Cyrillic letter Fita (Ѳ), which has not been used since 1918
- the Greek letter theta (Θ)
- the IPA mark ɵ
Transcription and transliteration
- in Latin as transcription ö or oe shown
- in the Arabic alphabet as ۇ shown