What means
It marks /ɔ/, the more open “o” vowel in Bhumij.
The separate Ol Onal letter OO, , represents /o/. You pronounce /ɔ/ with your mouth more open than /o/. Ol Onal is a left-to-right alphabet with a separate letter for each vowel. Bhumij has also been written in Odia, Bengali, Devanagari and Latin scripts.
Mahendra Nath Sardar developed Ol Onal in 1981–1992. In 1992, the Bhumij community organization Adim Bhumij Samaj selected his design in a contest to write Bhumij. By 2022, Ol Onal appeared in primers, ritual writing, banners, wedding invitations, inscriptions and wall paintings.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does this letter appear as a box?
As of 2026, a font or app without an Ol Onal glyph may show a missing-character box or blank space. The text still contains this same letter.
How to type
𞗐\1E5D0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
