U+0366 "ͦ" Combining Latin Small Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0366 "ͦ" Combining Latin Small Letter O is a combining diacritical mark used in historical and linguistic texts, primarily appearing above or attached to a base letter to modify its pronunciation. It represents a small "o" shape and is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks block, often utilized in medieval manuscripts or phonetic transcriptions to indicate a specific vowel quality or to denote a superscript abbreviation in older writing systems, such as in Latin or Germanic philology. Unlike standalone characters, this mark combines with other letters, like a or e, to form digraphs or to show vowel rounding or length, making it a specialized tool for scholars studying ancient orthography and pronunciation patterns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0366 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter O |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0366 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000366 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0366 |