O (Cyrillic) - History

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The Cyrillic letter O was derived from the Greek letter Omicron (Ο ο).

The name of O in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was онъ (onŭ), meaning "he" or "it".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, O had a value of 70.

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