Monocular O (
majuscule: ,
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
: ) 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-initial position. It is used in some late
birchbark letters of the 14th and 15th centuries, where it is usually differentiated from a regular , used after consonants, also by width, being a
broad On (ѻ) with a dot inside.
It resembles the
Latin letter
The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, in southern Ital ...
for the
bilabial click
The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants that sound like a smack of the lips. They are found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family (currently two languages, one moribund), in the ǂ’Amkoe language of Botswana (also mo ...
(ʘ), and the
Gothic letter Hwair
Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted '' wh''-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.
Name
The name of the ...
(). It was proposed for inclusion into
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
in 2007 alongside the
Binocular O,
Double monocular O, and
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 ...
,
and was incorporated as characters U+A668 (majuscule) and U+A669 (minuscule) in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).
See also
*
Broad On
*
Omega (Cyrillic)
Omega (Ѡ ѡ or ; italics: ''Ѡ ѡ'' or ) is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet. Its name and form are derived from the Greek letter Omega (Ω ω).
In some forms it looks similar to the letter We.
Unlike Greek, the Slav ...
* ʘ :
Latin letter ʘ
* 𐍈 :
Gothic letter Hwair
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
*
Dotted zero
The slashed zero is a representation of the Arabic digit " 0" (zero) with a slash through it. The slashed zero glyph is often used to distinguish the digit "zero" ("0") from the Latin script letter " O" anywhere that the distinction needs empha ...
References
Eyes in culture
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