U+1D12 "ᴒ" Latin Small Letter Sideways Open O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᴒ
U+1D12 "ᴒ" Latin Small Letter Sideways Open O is a typographic and phonetic symbol derived from a rotated version of the open o character, which resembles a lowercase "c" turned on its side. It is part of the Phonetic Extensions block in Unicode and is used primarily in historical or specialized phonetic transcriptions to represent a specific vowel sound, often a rounded or near-open back vowel in certain linguistic notations. This character is not commonly found in modern standard alphabets but serves as a precise tool for documenting and analyzing the sounds of various languages, particularly in older or non-standard phonetic systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D12 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Sideways Open O |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d12 |