Oni, or On (Asomtavruli: Ⴍ; Nuskhuri: ⴍ; Mkhedruli; ო or ʟ; Mtavruli: Ო; Georgian: ონი, ონ) is the 16th letter of the three Georgian scripts. The letter Oni can also be spelled like the Latin letter L, however this version of writing Oni has fallen out of favour.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 70. Oni commonly represents the mid back rounded vowel /o̞/, like between the pronunciation of ⟨o⟩ in "story" and the pronunciation of ⟨aw⟩ in "yawn" (Received Pronunciation). It is typically romanized with the letter O.

An additional mkhedruli oni letters, ო̈ with an umlaut, ო̄ with a macron and ო̄̈ with both umlaut and macron are used in Svan language.

Letter

asomtavrulinuskhurimkhedrulimtavruli
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Three-dimensional

asomtavrulinuskhurimkhedruli

Stroke order

asomtavrulinuskhurimkhedruli
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Computer encodings

Character information
PreviewႭⴍოᲝ
Unicode nameGEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER ONGEORGIAN SMALL LETTER ONGEORGIAN LETTER ONGEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER ON
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode4269U+10AD11533U+2D0D4317U+10DD7325U+1C9D
UTF-8225 130 173E1 82 AD226 180 141E2 B4 8D225 131 157E1 83 9D225 178 157E1 B2 9D
Numeric character referenceႭႭⴍⴍოოᲝᲝ

With diacritic

ო̈ო̄ო̄̈
U+10DD U+0308U+10DD U+0304U+10DD U+0304 U+0308

Braille

mkhedruli

See also

Bibliography

  • Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
  • Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
  • Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
  • The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) , 1991-2013
  • The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) , 1991-2013