Oʻ

Not to be confused with O'.

Oʻ (o with turned comma above right; minuscule: oʻ) is the 25th letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the close-mid back rounded vowel /o/. It was adopted in the May 1995 revision of the alphabet, replacing Ö.^[1] It was also used in the Karakalpak alphabet until 2016, when it was replaced with Ó. In the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet, it corresponds to Ў.

O with turned comma above right
Oʻ oʻ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Uzbek language
Sound values	/o/
In Unicode	U+004F U+02BB, U+006F U+02BB
History
Development	O Oʻ oʻ
Time period	1995 to present
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Encodings

In Unicode, Oʻ is not encoded as a precomposed character, but rather as a sequence of U+004F O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O or U+006F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O and U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA. Since the modifier letter isn't readily typeable on the Uzbek Latin keyboard layouts shipped with Microsoft Windows as of 2022, the substitution of other characters such as U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE and U+2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is very common.^[2] But the use of U+02BB is the only correct option, as the signs U+2018 and U+2019 fulfill the role of secondary quotation marks in the Uzbek Latin.

Character information

Preview	O		o		ʻ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O		LATIN SMALL LETTER O		MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	79	U+004F	111	U+006F	699	U+02BB
UTF-8	79	4F	111	6F	202 187	CA BB
Numeric character reference	O	O	o	o	ʻ	ʻ

See also

• Ö
• Short U (Cyrillic)