U+04E8 "Ө" Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04E8 "Ө" Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, primarily used in the alphabets of languages such as Kazakh, Bashkir, Mongolian, and Tatar. It represents a close-mid front rounded vowel sound, similar to the "ö" in German or the "eu" in French, and is visually characterized by a horizontal line or bar through the center of the letter O. This character was added to the Unicode standard to support the written representation of these languages, allowing for accurate digital text processing and display. Its uppercase form is complemented by the lowercase version, U+04E9 "ө", which follows the same barred design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Barred O |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ө |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ө |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04e8 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| Simple Case Folding | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| Case Folding | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ө" U+04E9 Cyrillic Small Letter Barred O |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 | Upper |