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'Open o' (majuscule: '', minuscule: '') is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet.

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Unicode

Similar letters

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Unicode

In Unicode, the majuscule is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+0186 and the minuscule is encoded at U+0254.

Similar letters

The letter looks as a reversed C.
Claudius introduced a reversed C (the ''antisigma'') with the intention of replacing ''bs'' and ''ps''.
The Yucatec Maya language used a reversed C as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period.
Now ''dz'' or ''tz' is preferred.

See also

★ Open E

★ Writing systems of Africa (section on Latin script)