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danohuiginn | 4 years ago

Meet 'multi-ocular o'. This is the fever-dream of some 15th-century Russian scribe. He was writing about 'many-eyed seraphim', and decided that no ordinary O could do justice to them. Somehow, his doodle found its way into unicode.

For the more sedate eye-lovers, there is also Ꙩ (monocular o), and Ꙫ (binocular o)

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nathancahill|4 years ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Page 46 (Figure 42): http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf

ectopod|4 years ago

It's horrible but effective. It doesn't really work as a normal size letter though. Perhaps someone could add a note to font designers in the Unicode spec: "This glyph is intended to be three times larger than a regular O."

gpvos|4 years ago

The binocular o is the unofficial IPA symbol for the nasal-ingressive voiceless velar trill.

legerdemain|4 years ago

Namely, a snore noise, because the character looks like a pig's snout?