U+AB41 "ꭁ" Latin Small Letter Turned Oe with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭁ
U+AB41 "ꭁ" Latin Small Letter Turned Oe with Stroke is a specialized glyph used primarily in historical or phonetic transcription, representing a distinct sound in the Latin Extended-E block. Its design combines a turned lowercase oe (a ligature of o and e) with a horizontal stroke through the middle, signaling a modification or closure of the vowel sound, often employed in linguistic notation for certain Uralic or obscure dialectal writings. This character is rare in modern typography but serves as an important tool for scholars documenting rare or archaic phonetic distinctions, ensuring precise representation of specific open or centralized vowel articulations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB41 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned Oe with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab41 |