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Alternative forms for the Cyrillic letter O
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This is a list of rare glyph variants of the Cyrillic letter O. They were proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 and incorporated as in Unicode 5.1.[1][2]
Monocular O<br>[edit]
Not to be confused with any other variety of a circled dot.
Monocular O<br>Monocular O (Ꙩ ꙩ) is one of the rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant was used in certain manuscripts in the root word ꙩко "eye",[1] 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 о, used after consonants, also by width, being a broad On (ѻ) with a dot inside.
The letter resembles International Phonetic Alphabet bilabial click (ʘ) and the Gothic letter hwair (𐍈).
Binocular O<br>[edit]
Binocular O<br>Binocular O (Ꙫ ꙫ) is found in certain manuscripts in the plural or dual forms of the root word eye, like Ꙫчи.[3]
A similar jocular glyph (called "double-dot wide O") has been suggested as a phonetic symbol for the "nasal-ingressive velar trill", a paralinguistic impression of a snort, due to the graphic resemblance to a pig snout.[4]
Double monocular O<br>[edit]
Double monocular O<br>Double monocular O (Ꙭ ꙭ) is one of the exotic glyph variants of the Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant can be found in certain manuscripts in the plural or dual forms of the word eye, for example ꙭчи "[two] eyes".
Multiocular O<br>[edit]
Multiocular O (ꙮ) is a unique glyph variant found in a single 15th-century manuscript (thereby a hapax legomenon), in the Old Church Slavonic phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи (abbreviated мн̑оꙮ҆читїи̑; serafimi mnogoočitii, 'many-eyed seraphim'). It was documented by Yefim Karsky in 1928 in a copy of the Book of Psalms from around 1429,[5][6] now found in the collection of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.[7]
The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007[8] and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[9] The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character,[10] it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.[11][12]
The letter in the original manuscript.
Multiocular O
The incorrect form originally implemented into Unicode (2007–2022).
Double O<br>[edit]
Not to be confused with Ꝏ.
Double O<br>Double O (Ꚙ ꚙ) is a variant of the letter О in the Cyrillic script. It is found in some early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts, where it is used in place of ⟨О⟩ in the words двꚙе "two" and ꚙбо "both", as well as their derivatives ꚙбанадесять "all twelve", and двꚙюнадесять "twelve".[13] The Cyrillic "double O" resembles the Latin-script double-o ligature (ꝏ) and the Infinity symbol (∞).
Crossed O<br>[edit]
Not to be confused with 𐊨.
Crossed O<br>Crossed O (Ꚛ ꚛ) is a glyph variant of Cyrillic O with the addition of a cross, used in Old Church Slavonic. The crossed O is primarily used in the word ꚛкрест (around, in the region of) in early Slavonic manuscripts,[14] whose component крест means 'cross'.
Broad On<br>[edit]
See also: Broad omega
Broad On<br>Broad On , also known as Round Omega (Ѻ ѻ; italics: Ѻ ѻ) is a positional and orthographical variant of the Cyrillic O. On (ѻнъ, onŭ) is a traditional name of Cyrillic letter О; these names are still in use in the Church Slavonic alphabet.
Broad On is used only in the Church Slavonic language. In its alphabet (in primers and grammar books), broad and regular shapes of О share the same position, as they are not considered different letters. Uppercase is typically represented by broad Ѻ, and lowercase is either regular о or dual: both broad ѻ and regular о (in the same way as Greek uppercase Σ is accompanied with two lowercases σ, ς). Phonetically, broad Ѻ ѻ is the same as regular О о.
St. Olga icon at St Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kyiv. The letter can be seen in the inscription above her left shoulder.<br>In standard Church Slavonic orthography (since the middle of the 17th century until present time), the broad shape of letter On is used instead of the regular shape of the same letter in the following cases:
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