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Ot (Cyrillic)

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Cyrillic letter Ot
Phonetic usage:/ot/
Numeric value:800
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АА̀А̂А̄ӐӒБВ
ГҐДЂЃЕЀЕ̂
Е̄ЁЄЄ́ЖЗЗ́Ѕ
ИІІ́ЇЍИ̂Ӣ
ЙӤЈКЛЉМН
ЊОО̀О̂О̄ӦПР
СС́ТЋЌУУ̀У̂
ӮЎӰФХЦЧЏ
ШЩЪЪ̀ЫЬѢ
ЭЮЮ̀ЯЯ̀ʼˮ
Non-Slavic letters
А̊А̃Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃Ӛ
В̌ԜГ̑Г̇Г̣Г̌Г̂Г̆
Г̈Г̊ҔҒӺҒ̌Ғ̊
ӶГ̡Д́Д̌Д̈Д̣Д̆Ӗ
Е̃Ё̄Є̈ԐԐ̈ҖӜӁ
Ж̣ҘӞЗ̌З̣З̆ӠИ̃
И̇ҊҚӃҠҞҜК̣
К̊Қ̊ԚЛ́ӅԮԒ
Л̈ӍН́ӉҢԨӇ
ҤО̆О̃Ӧ̄ӨӨ̄Ө́Ө̆
ӪԤП̈Р̌ҎС̌ҪС̣
С̱Т́Т̈Т̌Т̇Т̣Ҭ
У̃У̌ӲУ̊Ӱ̄ҰҮҮ́
Х̣Х̱Х̮Х̑Х̌ҲӼХ̊
ӾӾ̊ҺҺ̈ԦЦ̌Ц̈Ҵ
ҶҶ̣ӴӋҸЧ̇Ч̣
ҼҾШ̣Ы̆Ы̄Ӹ
ҌҨЭ̆Э̄Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄
Ю̆Ю̈Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈Ӏ
Archaic or unused letters
A page from Azbuka, the first Russian textbook, printed by Ivan Fyodorov in 1574. This page features the Cyrillic alphabet.

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

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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

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  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