ở

See also: Appendix:Variations of "o"

ở	U+1EDF, ở LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH HORN AND HOOK ABOVE

Composition:

o [U+006F] + ◌̛ [U+031B] + ◌̉ [U+0309]

← Ở
[U+1EDE]

Latin Extended Additional

Ỡ →
[U+1EE0]

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ʔəh (“to stay”); cognate with Muong ớ.

Most prepositions in Vietnamese were originally verbs: cho (“to give; for”), đến (“to come; to”), tới (“to arrive; to”), lên (“to go up; onto”), vào (“to enter; in, into”), theo (“to follow; according to”), về (“to return; about”).

Similarity to Chinese 於／于 is coincidental, as semantically the Vietnamese word is a grammaticalized verbal and phonetically there is a tonal mismatch.