U00F8

U+00F8 is the Unicode code point for the Latin small letter o with stroke, ø. It is used as a distinct letter in the alphabets of Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, where it represents a close-mid front rounded vowel and appears in many native words. The corresponding uppercase form is U+00D8 (Ø).

In pronunciation terms, ø is typically described as /ø/, a rounded front vowel. The letter functions as a separate phoneme in Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese and is treated as an independent character in their orthographies, not a mere variant of o. Common examples include Danish rød (red), sød (sweet), and smørrebrød (open-faced sandwich), as well as Norwegian øl (beer) and søknad (application).

Encoding and representations: in Unicode, the small o with stroke is U+00F8; the uppercase is U+00D8. In UTF-8, U+00F8 is encoded as the two bytes C3 B8. In many HTML contexts it can be written as ø or as numeric references such as ø or ø. In ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252, the character corresponds to the byte value 0xF8.

Notes: U+00F8 is a distinct letter within the Nordic Latin alphabets and is separate from the uppercase Ø (U+00D8). Its usage and phonetic value are language-specific, contributing to the orthographic identity of Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese writing systems. See also Ø, the capital counterpart, and general Unicode encoding practices for Nordic characters.

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