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Ø ( ø) is one used in the alphabets , and .

Synopsis

Linguistics

In Danish, féringien and Norwegian, the letter Ø indicates the sound of one former semi-closed deaf (similar with French "have /?" or with German "ö"). The symbol is taken again besides by to indicate this sound.

The letter is considered in these languages a vowel with whole share, and not just an O .

In Danish, ø is also a complete word and means "island".

History

The origin of the letter is one for "oe", the horizontal bar of the E being written through O.

C-W communication of the letter Ø resembles the following symbols, with which it should not be confused:

  • , sometimes used on information processing systems with a transverse bar to represent the number 0 differently of the letter O.
  • The mathematical symbol <maths>\varnothing</maths>, used to represent it.
  • The symbol?, standard symbol for .

Data-processing representations

The letter Ø has the following representations:

  • ASCII :
    • Capital Ø: 216
    • Tiny ø: 248
  • :
    • Capital Ø: U+00D8
    • Tiny ø: U+00F8
  • HTML :
    • Capital Ø: Ø
    • Tiny ø: ø

See too

  • Æ
  • ?

 

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