O - Wikipedia

letter of the Latin rudiment
This article is about the letter of the rudiment. For the number zero, see 0. For early uses, see O ( disambiguation )

O, or o, is the fifteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet and the one-fourth vowel letter in the modern English rudiment. Its name in English is o ( pronounced ), plural oes. [ 1 ]

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history [edit ]

recently Renaissance or early Baroque plan of an O, from 1627 Its graphic form has remained fairly ceaseless from phoenician times until today. The name of the phoenician letter was ʿeyn, meaning “ eye ”, and indeed its determine originates plainly as a absorb of a human eye ( possibly inspired by the comparable egyptian hieroglyph, cystic fibrosis. Proto-Sinaitic script ). Its original good value was that of a accordant, probably [ ʕ ], the sound represented by the akin Arabic letter ع ʿayn. The use of this phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early greek alphabets, which adopted the letter as O “ omicron ” to represent the vowel /o/. The letter was adopted with this rate in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. In Greek, a variation of the form later came to distinguish this long sound ( Omega, meaning “ big O ” ) from the short o ( Omicron, meaning “ small o ” ). greek omicron gave rise to the correspond Cyrillic letter O and the early Italic letter to runic ᛟ. even alphabets that are not derived from semitic tend to have like forms to represent this sound ; for example, the creators of the Afaka and Ol Chiki scripts, each invented in different parts of the universe in the stopping point hundred, both attributed their vowels for ‘O ‘ to the shape of the mouth when making this voice. [ original research? ]

Use in writing systems [edit ]

english [edit ]

The letter ⟨o⟩ is the fourth most common letter in the English alphabet. [ 2 ] Like the other English vowel letters, it has associated “ long ” and “ short ” pronunciations. The “ long ” ⟨o⟩ as in boat is actually most frequently a diphthong ( realized dialectically anywhere from [ o ] to [ əʊ ] ). In English there is besides a “ short ” ⟨o⟩ as in fox, , which sounds slightly different in different dialects. In most dialects of british English, it is either an open-mid second rounded vowel [ ɔ ] or an open back round vowel [ ɒ ] ; in American English, it is most normally an unrounded back [ ɑ ] to a central vowel [ a ]. common digraph include ⟨oo⟩, which represents either or ; ⟨oi⟩ or ⟨oy⟩, which typically represents the diphthong, and ⟨ao⟩, ⟨oe⟩, and ⟨ou⟩ which represent a variety of pronunciations depending on context and etymology. In other context, particularly before a letter with a minim, ⟨o⟩ may represent the fathom, as in ‘son ‘ or ‘love ‘. It can besides represent the semivowel as in choir or quinoa. In English, the letter ⟨o⟩ in isolation before a noun, normally capitalized, marks the vocative case, as in the titles to O Canada or O Captain ! My captain ! or certain verses of the Bible. [ 3 ]

early languages [edit ]

pronunciation of the mention of the letter ⟨o⟩ in european languages ⟨o⟩ is normally associated with the open-mid back round vowel [ ɔ ], mid back rounded vowel [ o̞ ] or close-mid back round vowel [ o ] in many languages. other languages use ⟨o⟩ for respective values, normally spinal column vowels which are at least partially open. Derived letters such as ⟨ ö ⟩ and ⟨ ø ⟩ have been created for the alphabets of some languages to distinguish values that were not present in Latin and Greek, particularly rounded presence vowels .

other systems [edit ]

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨o⟩ represents the close-mid back round vowel .

related characters [edit ]

Descendants and related characters in the Latin rudiment [edit ]

Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations [edit ]

Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets [edit ]

? : Semitic letter Ayin, from which the following symbols originally derive
- Ο ο : Greek letter Omicron
  - Ⲟ ⲟ : Coptic letter O, which derives from Greek omicron
  - О о : Cyrillic letter O, which also derives from Omicron
  - ? : Old Italic O, which derives from Greek Omicron, and is the ancestor of modern Latin O
  - Օ օ : Armenian letter O[ citation needed]

Computing codes [edit ]

Character information
Preview	O		o		Ｏ		ｏ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O		LATIN SMALL LETTER O		FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O		FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER O
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	79	U+004F	111	U+006F	65327	U+FF2F	65359	U+FF4F
UTF-8	79	4F	111	6F	239 188 175	EF BC AF	239 189 143	EF BD 8F
Numeric character reference	O	O	o	o	Ｏ	Ｏ	ｏ	ｏ
EBCDIC family	214	D6	150	96
ASCII g1	79	4F	111	6F

1 besides for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

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