U+01A3 "ƣ" Latin Small Letter Oi Unicode Character

U+01A3 "ƣ" Latin Small Letter Oi is a historical typographic glyph representing a ligature of the letters "o" and "i" used primarily in the Old English orthography of the Ormulum, a 12th century biblical exegesis, where it denoted a long o sound in specific contexts. This character, along with its uppercase counterpart U+01A2 "Ƣ", was included in the Unicode standard to support scholarly transcription of medieval manuscripts, though it is rarely encountered in modern digital text. Its shape combines a standard Latin o with a connecting i, often appearing as a distinctive, cursive style element in early Middle English writing.