ɔ

See also: Ɔ [U+0186 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O], ᴐ [U+1D10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OPEN O], ͻ [U+037B GREEK SMALL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], Ͻ [U+03FD GREEK CAPITAL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], Ↄ [U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED], and ↄ [U+2184 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C]

ɔ U+0254, ɔ LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O ← ɓ [U+0253] IPA Extensions ɕ → [U+0255]

Character variations

ᵓ U+1D53, ᵓ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O ← ᵒ [U+1D52] Phonetic Extensions ᵔ → [U+1D54]

A common glyph for the letter is a reversed c.

Translingual

Etymology

(vowel): A turned-c as a convenient type for an open o.

(click): A rotated Xhosa dental click ⟨c⟩. Later identified as a rotated palatal stop [c], analogous to turned dental t ⟨ʇ⟩ for dental clicks and turned velar k ⟨ʞ⟩ for 'velar' clicks.

Symbol

• IPA:

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Open-mid back rounded vowel

Wikipedia

ɔ

1. (IPA, UPA) an open-mid back rounded vowel.
2. (superscript ⟨ᵓ⟩, IPA) [ɔ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ɔ].
3. (phonetics, obsolete) base letter of the palatal click consonants; equivalent to IPA ⟨ǂ⟩.

See also

• O
• C