U+0223 "ȣ" Latin Small Letter Ou Unicode Character

U+0223 "ȣ" Latin Small Letter Ou is a typographic ligature historically used in Latin script to represent the diphthong sound "ou," and it also appears in some medieval manuscript traditions as a shorthand or abbreviation. This character is distinct from the more common digraph "ou" and is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, primarily serving scholarly and historical text transcription needs. While rarely used in modern writing, it remains relevant for linguists, philologists, and editors working with old English, Irish, or other early European languages where such ligatures were conventional.