ǫ is the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH OGONEK, code point U+01EB (decimal 491) in the Latin Extended-B block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ǫ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C7 AB.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+01EB |
| Decimal | 491 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C7 AB |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 01EB |
| UTF-32 | 000001EB |
| HTML decimal | ǫ |
| HTML hex | ǫ |
| CSS | \1EB |
| JavaScript | \u01EB |
| JSON | \u01EB |
| Python | \u01EB |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH OGONEK} |
| Java, C# | \u01EB |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1EB} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u01EB |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C7%AB |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH OGONEK |
| Code point | U+01EB (decimal 491) |
| Block | Latin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH OGONEK is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+01EB. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ǫ U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O With Ogonek — Uppercase
Nearby in Latin Extended-B
- ǣ U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae With Macron
- Ǥ U+01E4 Latin Capital Letter G With Stroke
- ǥ U+01E5 Latin Small Letter G With Stroke
- Ǧ U+01E6 Latin Capital Letter G With Caron
- ǧ U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G With Caron
- Ǩ U+01E8 Latin Capital Letter K With Caron
- ǩ U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K With Caron
- Ǫ U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O With Ogonek
- Ǭ U+01EC Latin Capital Letter O With Ogonek And Macron
- ǭ U+01ED Latin Small Letter O With Ogonek And Macron
- Ǯ U+01EE Latin Capital Letter Ezh With Caron
- ǯ U+01EF Latin Small Letter Ezh With Caron
- ǰ U+01F0 Latin Small Letter J With Caron
- DZ U+01F1 Latin Capital Letter Dz
- Dz U+01F2 Latin Capital Letter D With Small Letter Z
- dz U+01F3 Latin Small Letter Dz
All 208 characters: Latin Extended-B.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ǫ?
- Use ǫ (decimal) or ǫ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+01EB?
- C7 AB (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C7%AB.
- How do I write U+01EB in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u01EB. Python: \u01EB.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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