Open O
Letter of the Latin alphabet
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Open o or turned c (majuscule: Æ, minuscule: É) 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.
| Æ | |
|---|---|
| Æ É | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
| Language of origin | Dagbani language, Ewe language, Latin language, Lingala language, Yucatec Maya language |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+0186, U+0254 |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Transliterations | ê |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
The Yucatec Maya language used Æ to transcribe the alveolar ejective affricate [tÍ¡sʼ] consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tsʼ is preferred.[1]
Unicode
| Preview | Æ | É | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O | LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 390 | U+0186 | 596 | U+0254 |
| UTF-8 | 198 134 | C6 86 | 201 148 | C9 94 |
| Numeric character reference | Ɔ | Ɔ | ɔ | ɔ |
On the macOS US Extended keyboard, É and Æ can be typed with ⥠Option+: followed by c or C.[citation needed]
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- Æ with diacritics: ÉÌ ÉÌ ÉÌ á¶[2]
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to Æ:[3]
- U+1D10 á´ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OPEN O
- U+1D12 á´ LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS OPEN O
- U+1D53 áµ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O
Similar looking letters
Open o looks like a reversed letter 'C'. Claudius introduced a Æ (the antisigma) with the intention of replacing bs and ps.
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The Scandinavian explanatory symbol (forklaringstegnet) can be typeset using the open o followed by a colon, thus: É:. It is used to mean "namely", "id est", "scilicet" or similar.[4]
This letter is often used to refer to the Copyleft official sign, which looks like an open o with a circle around it.
