Binocular O (
majuscule: ,
minuscule
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: ) is one of the exotic glyph variants of
Cyrillic letter . This glyph variant can be found in certain manuscripts in the
plural
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or
dual forms of the
root word eye, like .
A similar jocular glyph (called "double-dot wide O") has been suggested as a phonetic symbol for the "nasal-ingressive velar trill", a
paralinguistic
Paralanguage, also known as vocalics, is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, by using techniques such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc. It is sometimes defined as relatin ...
impression of a snort, due to the graphic resemblance to a pig snout.
Computing encodings
See also
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Monocular O
Monocular O ( majuscule: , minuscule: ) is one of the rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter . This glyph variant was used in certain manuscripts in the root word ( eye), and also in some other functions, for example, in the word- and syllable- ...
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Double monocular O
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Multiocular O
Multiocular O () is a rare glyph variant of the Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant can be found in a single 15th century manuscript, in the Old Church Slavonic phrase "серафими многꙮ҄читїи" (, "many-eyed seraphim"). It ...
References
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Eyes in culture
Grammatical number