Latin Capital Letter O
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 79 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter o.
- Alt code
- Alt+79
- HTML entity
- O
- Unicode
- U+004F
About this symbol
O comes from ayin, the Phoenician letter whose name meant eye, drawn as a simple circle. Phoenician used it for a consonant; the Greeks, who needed letters for vowels, turned it into omicron, the o sound.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.