U+01A0 "Ơ" Latin Capital Letter O with Horn Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ơ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+01A0 "Ơ" Latin Capital Letter O with Horn is a distinct letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the vowel sound [ə] or [ɤ] with a specific tonal quality, often described as an unrounded back vowel. It is formed by adding a small horn-shaped diacritic to the top right of the Latin letter O, and it appears in words such as "cơm" meaning rice. This character is part of the extended Latin set, essential for correctly writing and rendering Vietnamese text, and it contrasts with its lowercase counterpart "ơ" at code point U+01A1.

General Properties

Code Point
U+01A0
Name
Latin Capital Letter O with Horn
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter O Horn

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ơ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ơ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC6 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x01A0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000001A0
C/C++/Java Escape
\u01a0