Cyrillic O variants
alternative forms for the Cyrillic letter O
This is a list of rare glyph variants of the Cyrillic letter O. They were proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 and incorporated as in Unicode 5.1.
Monocular O
Monocular O (Ꙩ ꙩ) is one of the rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter O. This glyph variant was used in certain manuscripts in the root word ꙩко "eye", 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 о, used after consonants, also by width, being a broad On (ѻ) with a dot inside.
The letter resembles International Phonetic Alphabet bilabial click (ʘ) and the Gothic letter hwair (𐍈).
Binocular O
Binocular O (Ꙫ ꙫ) is found in certain manuscripts in the plural or dual forms of the root word eye, like Ꙫчи.
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.
Double monocular O
Double monocular O (Ꙭ ꙭ) 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 ꙭчи "[two] eyes".
Multiocular O
Multiocular O (ꙮ) is a unique glyph variant found in a single 15th-century manuscript (therefore a hapax legomenon), in the Old Church Slavonic phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи (abbreviated мн̑оꙮ҆читїи̑; serafimi mnogoočitii, 'many-eyed seraphim'). It was documented by Yefim Karsky in 1928 in the Buslaev Psalter, a psalter (copy of the Book of Psalms with additional material) originally believed to be from around 1429, now dated to c. 1487 – c. 1490 and found in the collection of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.
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