Oe (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with Œ.

For the Cyrillic O with diaeresis, see O with diaeresis (Cyrillic).

"Ө" redirects here. Not to be confused with early Cyrillic Ѳ (fita), Greek Θ (theta), the Tifinagh letter ⴱ, Latin Ɵ, Ꝋ, and Ə (schwa), or Schwa (Cyrillic).

Oe or barred O (Ө ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Oe
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	Turkic: most commonly [ø~œ]; Mongolic: most commonly [o~ɵ]; Komi-Yazva: [ɤ̹̈]; Northwestern Mari: [ʊ]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Shape

Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif and other alphabets.^{[citation needed]}

Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the Greek letter theta (Θ θ/ϑ) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ ѳ). However, traditional forms of Cyrillic fita (since the 18th century) and Oe are identical, and designers of Unicode's sample font were probably the first ones who split glyphs of the two letters (providing Oe with a horizontal bar and Fita with a tilde-shaped bar inside). In traditional typography, the shape of the inner line depends on typeface, not on meaning of the letter: the bar in both Oe and fita may either be straight or wavy.

Usage

Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Selkup, Tatar and Tuvan languages.

In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ or /œ/. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express /wʉ/. In Mongolic languages, it usually represents /o/ or /ɵ/. The letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the Komi-Yazva language, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel /ɤ̹̈/. In Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.^[1][2][3]

Language	Sound
Bashkir	[ø̝~ʏ̞~ɵ]
Buryat	[ɵ]
Kalmyk	[o~ø]
Karakalpak	[œ], [wʏ]
Kazakh	[ø], [wʉ]
Komi-Yazva	[ɤ̹̈]
Kyrgyz	[ø~œ]
Mongolian	[o~ø]
Sakha	[ø]
Selkup	[ø]
Tatar	[ø̆~ɵ̆]
Tuvan	[ø]
Uilta	[o~ø]

Until a new alphabet was published in 2016, Oe was used to represent /ø/ in Negidal.

Oe is most commonly romanized as ⟨Ö⟩; but its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨ô⟩. In 2018, there were proposals to use ⟨Ó⟩ as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as ⟨Ö⟩.

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart, ɵ, to represent the close-mid central rounded vowel, and sometimes also the mid central rounded vowel.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ө		ө
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BARRED O		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BARRED O
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1256	U+04E8	1257	U+04E9
UTF-8	211 168	D3 A8	211 169	D3 A9
Numeric character reference	Ө	Ө	ө	ө

See also

• Ö ö : O with diaeresis – an Azerbaijani, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Turkish and Turkmen letter
• Ơ ơ : Latin letter O with horn, used in Vietnamese
• Ø ø : Latin letter O with stroke, used in Danish
• Õ õ : Latin letter O with tilde, used in Estonian
• Œ œ : Ligature Oe
• О о : Cyrillic letter O
• Ӧ ӧ : Cyrillic letter O with diaeresis
• Ӫ ӫ : Cyrillic letter oe with diaeresis