Ge with middle hook
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Ge with middle hook (Ҕ ҕ; italics: Ҕ ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Abkhaz and Yakut languages to represent the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook".[1] The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the Ossetian language from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and Gothic 
.[2]
Usage
⟨Ҕ⟩ is the sixth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs ⟨Гә⟩ and ⟨Ҕь⟩. It is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between ⟨Г⟩ and ⟨Д⟩.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ҕ | ҕ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1172 | U+0494 | 1173 | U+0495 |
| UTF-8 | 210 148 | D2 94 | 210 149 | D2 95 |
| Numeric character reference | Ҕ |
Ҕ |
ҕ |
ҕ |
See also
- Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge
- Ғ ғ : Cyrillic letter Ghayn
- Ӷ ӷ : Cyrillic letter Ge with descender
References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 42. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-25.
- ^ (in Russian) Шёгрен А. М. Осетинская грамматика с кратким словарем осетинско-российским и российско-осетинским. — СПб., 1844. — С. 9.
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