Oʻ
Letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet
Oʻ (o with turned comma above right; minuscule: oʻ) is the 25th letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the close-mid back rounded vowel /o/. It was adopted in the May 1995 revision of the alphabet, replacing Ö. It was also used in the Karakalpak alphabet until 2016, when it was replaced with Ó. In the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet, it corresponds to Ў.
01Encodings
In Unicode, Oʻ is not encoded as a precomposed character, but rather as a sequence of U+004F O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O or U+006F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O and U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA. Since the modifier letter isn't readily typeable on the Uzbek Latin keyboard layouts shipped with Microsoft Windows as of 2022, the substitution of other characters such as U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE and U+2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is very common. But the use of U+02BB is the only correct option, as the signs U+2018 and U+2019 fulfill the role of secondary quotation marks in the Uzbek Latin.
| Preview | O | o | ʻ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O | LATIN SMALL LETTER O | MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 79 | U+004F | 111 | U+006F | 699 | U+02BB |
| UTF-8 | 79 | 4F | 111 | 6F | 202 187 | CA BB |
| Numeric character reference | O | O | o | o | ʻ | ʻ |
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Oʻ”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
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- Latin letter O with turned comma above right.svg by Person or Persons Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0
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