U+00F6 "ö" Latin Small Letter O with Diaeresis Unicode Character

U+00F6 "ö" Latin Small Letter O with Diaeresis is a precomposed glyph representing the letter "o" with two dots, or a diaeresis, placed above it. This character is used in multiple languages, including German, Swedish, Finnish, and Hungarian, where it denotes a distinct vowel sound, often a front rounded vowel, and is considered a separate letter in many alphabets. In English contexts, it primarily appears in loanwords and names, such as "coöperate" in older orthography, serving either to indicate that the "o" is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel or to preserve the original spelling of foreign terms.