U+01EB "ǫ" Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek Unicode Character
U+01EB "ǫ" Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek is a glyph used primarily in the orthographies of several Indigenous languages of the Americas, such as Navajo and Ojibwe, as well as in certain Slavic languages like Polish and Lithuanian for historical or phonetic transcription. The ogonek, a small hook attached to the bottom right of the letter, indicates a nasalized pronunciation of the vowel, as in the Navajo word shǫǫda, meaning "it is not." Its uppercase counterpart is U+01EA "Ǫ". This character is distinct from other similar letters like "o" with a cedilla or comma, and it is often employed in linguistic and academic texts to accurately represent specific phonetic sounds. When typed, it can be accessed through Unicode input methods or specialized keyboard layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01EB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Ogonek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O "̨" U+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01eb |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǫ" U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǫ" U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǫ" U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǫ" U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |