U+0275 "ɵ" Latin Small Letter Barred O Unicode Character

U+0275 "ɵ" Latin Small Letter Barred O is a distinct typographic symbol primarily used in phonetics to represent a mid central rounded vowel, specifically the sound found in words like the French "peu" or Swedish "hus". It belongs to the Latin Extended-B block and is often employed in linguistic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet. Its visual form features a horizontal bar through the center of the letter "o" to differentiate it from similar vowels, and it appears in various orthographies for African and Indigenous languages like the Ewe language. The character should not be confused with the similar-looking barred O used in some writing systems for distinct phonetic values.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0275
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Barred O
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɵ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0275
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000275
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0275

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ɵ" U+019F Latin Capital Letter O with Middle Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɵ" U+019F Latin Capital Letter O with Middle Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɵ" U+019F Latin Capital Letter O with Middle Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɵ" U+019F Latin Capital Letter O with Middle Tilde
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