U+AB44 "ꭄ" Latin Small Letter Turned O Open-O with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭄ
U+AB44 "ꭄ" Latin Small Letter Turned O Open-O with Stroke is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in linguistic transcription, particularly within the context of Teuthonista and other extended Latin alphabets designed for dialectology. It represents a specific vowel sound, combining a turned 'o' shape with an open-o quality and a horizontal stroke, indicating a distinct articulation in certain German and other European dialect studies. This character is part of the Latin Extended-E block, added to Unicode in version 7.0 to support the precise documentation of regional speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB44 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned O Open-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 | ꭄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab44 |