![]() narrow variant, being used now in Synodal Church Slavonic editions as the first element of digraph Oy/oy (see Uk (Cyrillic) for more details), and in the editions of Old Believers for unstressed "o" as well.broad variant (Ѻ/ѻ), used mostly as a word initial letter (see Broad On for more details).Historical typefaces (like poluustav (semi-uncial), a standard font style for the Church Slavonic typography) and old manuscripts represent several additional glyph variants of Cyrillic O, both for decorative and orthographic (sometimes also "hieroglyphic" ) purposes, namely: In modern-style typefaces, the Cyrillic letter O looks exactly like the Latin letter O ⟨O o⟩ and the Greek letter Omicron ⟨Ο ο⟩.Ĭhurch Slavonic printed fonts and Slavonic manuscripts The Cyrillic letter O was derived from the Greek letter Omicron (Ο ο). ![]() Some old Russian typewriters like this one were manufactured without the digit 0 as the letter O could be used instead. ![]()
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