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Omega (US: / oʊ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə,-ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə,-ˈ m iː ɡ ə /, UK: / ˈ oʊ m ɪ ɡ ə /; [1] uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.
Graphically, the lower case is a turned small-capital Greek letter omega (Ω) in many typefaces (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Candara, Liberation, Lucida, Noto, Times New Roman), and historically it derives from a small-capital Latin U (ᴜ), with the serifs exaggerated to make them more visible. [1]
The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [ a ] For example, Alt + 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling ) which is at 163 in CP1252.
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Omega ɷ 𐞤 Closed omega Obsolete IPA /ʊ/ Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ȣ ȣ: Ou Ligature of Latin o and u ᴕ ᴽ: Small capital Ou FUT [2] a back vowel of uncertain quality: ᴘ: Small capital P ꟼ Epigraphic letter reversed P ɸ ᶲ Phi IPA /ɸ/ cf. Greek: Φ φ ⱷ Tailless phi FUT [2] ĸ: Kra
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for consonants as well as vowels. [5]
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ROUND OMEGA 047B: ѻ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ROUND OMEGA 047C: Ѽ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO 047D: ѽ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO Cyrillic "beautiful omega" Despite its character name, this letter does not have a titlo, nor is it composed of an omega plus a diacritic 047E: Ѿ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL ...