U+AB65 "ꭥ" Greek Letter Small Capital Omega Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭥ
U+AB65 "ꭥ" Greek Letter Small Capital Omega is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a close-mid back rounded vowel, specifically a variant of the sound often denoted by the standard IPA symbol [o]. Its design is a small capital version of the Greek letter omega, distinguishing it from the lowercase omega and the uppercase Omega to fit within a single-case phonetic script. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-E block to support phonetic transcription needs for linguistics and language documentation. It remains a niche but essential character for precise representation of vowel sounds in certain dialects and scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB65 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Greek Letter Small Capital Omega |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB65 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab65 |