Английская Википедия:Cyrillic o variants
Шаблон:Merge from Шаблон:Cyrillic alphabet navbox The Cyrillic O variants, consisting of Monocular O, Binocular O, Double monocular O, and Multiocular O are rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter Шаблон:Script. In 2007, they were proposed for inclusion into Unicode.[1]
Monocular O
Monocular O (Capital: Шаблон:Script, minuscule: Шаблон:Script) is one of the rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter Шаблон:Script. This glyph variant was used in certain manuscripts in the root word Шаблон:Slavonic (eye),[1] and also in some other functions, for example, in the word- and syllable-initial position. It is used in some late birchbark letters of the 14th and 15th centuries, where it is usually differentiated from a regular Шаблон:Script, used after consonants, also by width, being a broad On (ѻ) with a dot inside.
It resembles the Latin letter for the bilabial click (ʘ), and the Gothic letter Hwair (Шаблон:Script). It was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 alongside the Binocular O, Double monocular O, and Multiocular O,[1] and was incorporated as characters U+A668 (majuscule) and U+A669 (minuscule) in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[2]
Binocular O
Binocular O (majuscule: Шаблон:Script, minuscule: Шаблон:Script) is one of the exotic glyph variants of Cyrillic letter Шаблон:Script. This glyph variant can be found in certain manuscripts in the plural or dual forms of the root word eye, like Шаблон:Slavonic.[3]
A similar jocular glyph (called "double-dot wide O") has been suggested as a phonetic symbol for the "nasal-ingressive velar trill", a paralinguistic impression of a snort, due to the graphic resemblance to a pig snout.[4]
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Double monocular O
Double monocular O (uppercase: Шаблон:Slavonic, lowercase: Шаблон:Slavonic) is one of the exotic glyph variants of the Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant can be found in certain manuscripts in the plural or dual forms of the word eye, for example Шаблон:Slavonic "[two] eyes". They were incorporated into Unicode as characters U+A66C[5] and U+A66D[6] in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).
Multiocular O
Multiocular O (Шаблон:Slavonic) is a rare glyph variant of the Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant can be found in a single 15th century manuscript, in the Old Church Slavonic phrase "Шаблон:Slavonic" (abbreviated "Шаблон:Slavonic") (Шаблон:Transliteration, "many-eyed seraphim"). It was documented by Yefim Karsky[7] in 1928 in a copy of the Book of Psalms[8] (back of page 244) from around 1429, now found in the collection[9] of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.
It is most likely that Multiocular O was a result of a writer’s attempt at depicting how many eyes the seraphim they were describing had.Шаблон:Citation needed
The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007[10] and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[11] The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character,[12] it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.[13][14]
See also
- Cyrillic script in Unicode
- Broad On
- Omega (Cyrillic)
- ʘ : Latin letter ʘ
- 𐍈 : Gothic letter Hwair
- Ꚙ : Double O
- Dotted zero
- Ꚛ :Crossed O
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