U+1D17 "ᴗ" Latin Small Letter Bottom Half O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1D17 "ᴗ" Latin Small Letter Bottom Half O is a typographic symbol that represents the lower half of a lowercase letter o, and it is primarily used in historical and phonetic transcription contexts, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a short, rounded vowel sound or to indicate a reduced articulation. Its shape resembles an upturned arch or a small semicircle, and it belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode, which contains characters used for specialized linguistic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D17 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Bottom Half O |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d17 |