Ot (Cyrillic)

Ot
Ot
Ѿ ѿ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ɔt̪/
In Unicode	U+047E, U+047F
History
Development	Ѡ ѡ Ѿ ѿ;
Other
Associated numbers	800 (Cyrillic numerals)
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Ot (Ѿ ѿ; italics: Ѿ ѿ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. Though it originated as a ligature of the letters Omega (Ѡ ѡ) and Te (Т т), it functions as a discrete letter of the alphabet, placed between х and ц.^[1] This can be seen in the first printed Cyrillic abecedarium (illustrated), and continues in modern usage.^[2]

Ot is used in Church Slavonic to represent the preposition отъ 'from' and prefix отъ-. It does not stand for this sequence of letters in any other context, nor can the sequence отъ be substituted for it where it does occur. It is used with a similar purpose in mediaeval manuscripts of other Slavonic languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet. In printed books ѿ is often used in preference to (ѡ҃) for the numeral 800.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	Ѿ		ѿ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER OT		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER OT
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1150	U+047E	1151	U+047F
UTF-8	209 190	D1 BE	209 191	D1 BF
Numeric character reference	Ѿ	Ѿ	ѿ	ѿ

References

↑ Note that Ivan Fedorov’s alphabet does not include ѡ (though it does include ѽ). This is because it does include ѻ, which was considered orthographically equivalent; one may compare the alphabet from Spiridon Sobol’s abecedarium of 1631, which has ѡ where Ivan Fedorov has ѻ.
↑ Иеромонах Алипий, Грамматика церковно-славянского языка, Saint Petersburg, 1997, p. 17

[1] Note that Ivan Fedorov’s alphabet does not include ѡ (though it does include ѽ). This is because it does include ѻ, which was considered orthographically equivalent; one may compare the alphabet from Spiridon Sobol’s abecedarium of 1631, which has ѡ where Ivan Fedorov has ѻ.

[2] Иеромонах Алипий, Грамматика церковно-славянского языка, Saint Petersburg, 1997, p. 17

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