ॐ

ॐ U+0950, ॐ DEVANAGARI OM ← ॏ [U+094F] Devanagari ◌॑ → [U+0951]

Character variations

Text style	Emoji style
🕉︎	🕉️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🕉 U+1F549, 🕉 OM SYMBOL ← 🕈 [U+1F548] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🕊 → [U+1F54A]

Translingual

Design

A ligature of the letters अ and उ, with the diacritic ँ.

Symbol

ॐ

1. om or aum: the sacred syllable and mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism

Bengali

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /om/, [ˈoːm], [ˈom], /õm/, [ˈõm], /oũm/, [ˈoũm]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /om/, [ˈoːm], [ˈom], /õm/, [ˈõm], /om/, [ˈom], /ou̯m/, [ˈou̯m]

Noun

ॐ • (om̐)

1. Alternative spelling of ওঁ (ō̃)

Hindi

Alternative forms

• ओम् (om)

Etymology

From Sanskrit ॐ (oṃ)

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /oːm/, [õːm]

Interjection

ॐ • (om) (Urdu spelling اوم)

1. the sacred syllable and mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism

Noun

ॐ • (om) m (Urdu spelling اوم)

1. om; aum

Declension

Declension of ॐ (sg-only masc cons-stem)

	singular
direct	ॐ om
oblique	ॐ om
vocative	ॐ om

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• ओम् (óm)

Alternative scripts

• ওঁ (Assamese script)
• ᬒᬁ (Balinese script)
• ওঁ (Bengali script)
• 𑰌𑰼 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀑𑀁 (Brahmi script)
• ဥုံ (Burmese script)
• ૐ (Gujarati script)
• ੴ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑍐 (Grantha script)
• ꦎꦴꦀ (Javanese script)
• ಓಂ (Kannada script)
• ឱំ (Khmer script)
• ໂອໍ (Lao script)
• ഓമ് (Malayalam script)
• ᢀᠣ (Manchu script)
• 𑘌𑘦𑘿 (Modi script)
• ᢀᠣᠸᠠ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦬𑧞 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑑉 (Newa script)
• ଓମ୍ (Odia script)
• 𑆏𑆀 (Sharada script)
• 𑖌𑖼 (Siddham script)
• ඕම් (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩐𑩕𑪖 (Soyombo script)
• ௐ (Tamil script)
• ఓం (Telugu script)
• โอํ (Thai script)
• ཨོཾ (Tibetan script)
• 𑓇 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨀𑨆𑨸 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Etymology disputed.

• A. Parpola proposes borrowing from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *ām (“let it be so, it is so, yes”), a contraction of *ākum, cognate with Tamil ஆம் (ām, “yes”).
• M. Blumfield proposes derivation from Proto-Indo-European *au (introductory particle) via *ō >* ōṃ > ōm, cognate with Ancient Greek αὖ (aû).
• The Upaniṣads propose multiple Sanskrit etymologies, including: from आम् (ām, “yes”); from एवम् (evam, “that, thus, yes”); and from आप् (āp, “to attain”) or अव् (av, “to urge”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́wm/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /oːm/

Interjection

ॐ • (óṃ)

1. the sacred syllable and mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism: om, aum

Descendants

• Bengali: ওঁ (ō̃)
• Burmese: ဥုံ
• Chinese: 唵 (ǎn)
• English: om
• Khmer: ៚
• Hindi: ॐ (om)
• Japanese: 唵 (on)
• Malayalam: ഓം (ōṁ)
• Kannada: ಓಂ (ōṃ)
• Tamil: ௐ
• Telugu: ఓం (ōṁ)
• Thai: โอม (oom)
• Tibetan: ཨོཾ (oṃ)
• Sundanese: ᮃᮅᮙ᮪ (aum)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “ॐ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 235, column 3.