Open O
Open o or turned c 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 to transcribe the alveolar ejective affricate consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tsʼ is preferred.
Unicode
On the macOS US Extended keyboard, ɔ and Ɔ can be typed with followed by or.Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- Ɔ with diacritics: ɔ́ ɔ̀ ɔ̃ ᶗ
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to Ɔ:
- *
- *
- *
Similar looking letters
The Scandinavian explanatory symbol can be typeset using the open o followed by a colon, thus: ɔ:. It is used to mean "namely", "id est", "scilicet" or similar.
This letter is often used to refer to the Copyleft official sign, which looks like an open o with a circle around it.