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O (Letter)

O
Latin O.svg
Spellings
Capital O
Bas-de-casse o
Use
Alphabets Latin
Order 15 th
Phonemes main / O / , / / , / / ...

O is the 15th letter and the 4th vowel of the French alphabet.

Summary

Origin

D4
Proto-Semitic-01.png PhoenicianO-01.png Omicron uc lc.svg EtruscanO-01.svg Romano-01.png
Hieroglyph Egyptian
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O Proto-Semitic
ayin Phoenician omicron Greek O Etruscan O Roman
Likely evolution of the grapheme

Linguistics

Main article: Oh.

O vocative is used to indicate surprise, solemnity, admiration, joy, pain, fear, etc.. It is used to invoke or call upon a person or thing. It is the literary sign of rhetorical apostrophe Coding

Computer

Radio

Audio file
O Morse

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Other

Signaling Sign language Writing
Braille
Flag Semaphore French Quebec
ICS Oscar.svg Semaphore Oscar.svg RSA LettreO.jpg LSQ o.jpg Braille O.svg

References

  1. Le Bon Usage by Maurice Grevisse.

See also

Variants of the letter O
Superscript diacritic (acute accent) O (caret) (grave accent) o (short) (short inverted) o (horned) o (hook Chief) o (double acute accent) ( double grave accent) (hatchek) (macron) (item suscrit) (tilde) (umlaut)
Diacritical registered (bar included)
Diacritical subscribed (ogonek) (DOT)
Combinations of diacritical O (circumflex and acute accent) o (circumflex accent and grave accent) o (circumflex and hook-in-chief) o (caret point and subscribed) o (caret and tilde) (Bar and entered acute accent) o (horned and acute accent) o (horned grave accent) o (horned head and hook) o (and point horned subscribed) o (horned tilde) o (macron and acute accent ) o (macron and grave accent) (ogonek and macron) (item suscrit and macron) o (tilde and acute accent) (tilde and macron) o (tilde and umlaut) (umlaut and macron)
Ligatures (e in o)
Latin alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Additional letters d ( ) /
With diacritical superscript: N

hook or crook: ( ) H ( )

registered: DJ ( ) pm T Z
Digraphs C. Dx Gb Kp LI Mb Mp Nd Ng Nh Nk Ns Nt Ny Nz Or Sh Th
Trigrams C'h Ngb NKP Sch Tsh
Obsolete letters s


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