Open O


Open o 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.
The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tz' is preferred.

Unicode

On the Mac OS U.S. Extended keyboard, ɔ and Ɔ can be typed with followed by or.
On a personal computer, ɔ can be typed by holding the ALT key and typing 596 on the number keypad. The capital Ɔ can be typed similarly by using ALT+390.

Related characters

Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet

Open o looks like a reversed letter 'C'. Claudius introduced a Ɔ with the intention of replacing bs and ps.
The Norwegian and Danish explanatory symbol can be typeset using the open o followed by a colon, thus: ɔ:. It is used for the meaning "namely", "id est", "scilicet" or similar.