U+AB3E "ꬾ" Latin Small Letter Blackletter O with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬾ
U+AB3E "ꬾ" Latin Small Letter Blackletter O with Stroke is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in medievalist and phonetic transcription contexts, representing a variant of the letter "o" with a stroke through its body, rendered in a blackletter or Gothic script style. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-E block, which includes historical and diacritic letters for scholarly work, and it is often employed to denote a specific vowel sound or to replicate manuscript abbreviations in digital form. Its design combines the distinctive angular, ornate strokes of blackletter typefaces with a horizontal or diagonal stroke, making it useful for academic fields like linguistics, philology, and historical text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB3E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Blackletter O with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab3e |