Vo (Armenian letter)
# Vo (Armenian letter)

Vo (majuscule: Ո; minuscule: ո; Armenian: վո, վօ) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600. It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel (/ɔ/), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/. It is one of the two letters that represent the sound O, the other being Օ which was not created by Mashtots.

Its minuscule variant is homoglyphic to the minuscule form of the Latin letter N. In its uppercase form, it looks like a turned Latin letter U, the Lisu letter Ue (ꓵ), or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letter ghani (Ⴖ).

## As a component in U

This letter, along with Vyun (or Hiwn in Classical Armenian), is part of the Armenian U (ՈՒ Ու ու). Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters.

## Computing codes

Character information :

| Preview | Ո | Ո | ո | ո |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER VO | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER VO | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER VO | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER VO |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1352 | U+0548 | 1400 | U+0578 |
| UTF-8 | 213 136 | D5 88 | 213 184 | D5 B8 |
| Numeric character reference | &#1352; | &#x548; | &#1400; | &#x578; |

## Braille

* Eastern Armenian
* Western Armenian

## Related characters and other similar characters

* O o : Latin letter O
* О о : Cyrillic letter O
* Օ օ : Armenian letter O
* ꓵ : Lisu letter Ue
* ՈՒ Ու ու : Armenian letter U
* Ⴖ : Georgian letter Ghani, in asomtavruli form
