Vo (majuscule: Ո; minuscule: ո; Armenian: վո, վօ) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600.[1] It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel (/ɔ/), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/1. It is one of the two letters that represent the sound O, the other being Օ which was not created by Mashtots.
Vo | |
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Ո ո | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Armenian script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Armenian language |
Sound values | [ɔ] [vɔ] (word-initially or in isolated form) |
In Unicode | U+0548, U+0578 |
Alphabetical position | 24 Numerical value: 600 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 405 to present |
Other | |
Associated numbers | 600 |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Its minuscule variant is homoglyphic to the minuscule form of the Latin letter N. In its uppercase form, it looks like a turned Latin letter U, the Lisu letter Ue (ꓵ), or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letter ghani (Ⴖ).
As a component in U
editThis letter, along with Vyun (or Hiwn in Classical Armenian), is part of the Armenian U (ՈՒ Ու ու). Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters.
Computing codes
editPreview | Ո | ո | ||
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Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER VO | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER VO | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1352 | U+0548 | 1400 | U+0578 |
UTF-8 | 213 136 | D5 88 | 213 184 | D5 B8 |
Numeric character reference | Ո |
Ո |
ո |
ո |
Gallery
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Shghagir variant of Vo
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Handwritten form
Related characters and other similar characters
edit- O o : Latin letter O
- О о : Cyrillic letter O
- Օ օ : Armenian letter O
- ꓵ : Lisu letter Ue
- ՈՒ Ու ու : Armenian letter U
- Ⴖ : Georgian letter Ghani, in asomtavruli form
References
editNotes
edit- ^ Except in ով /ov/ "who" and ովքեր /ovkʰer/ "those (people)" in Eastern Armenian