Che with hook

Not to be confused with the Georgian letter ყ (Q'ari) or Latin Y.

Che with hook
Usage
Type	alphabet
Language of origin	Tofa language, Surgut Khanty
History
Development	Ч ч Che with hook

Che with hook (, , sometimes Ч̡ ч̡, italics: Ч̡ ч̡) is an allograph of the letter che with descender (Ҷ, ҷ) in the Cyrillic script. It represents a voiced or voiceless postalveolar affricate.

Usage

It has been used for the Surgut dialect of Eastern Khanty and the Tofa language.

Computing codes

It has no Unicode encodement. Uppercase may be encoded as U+1C8B and Lowercase as U+1C8C. As of 2024, it is available in the font Nishiki-Teki in Private use area, U+F3E5 for Uppercase and U+F3E6 for lowercase. It can sometimes be encountered as ч with combining palatal hook, as Ч̡ for uppercase and ч̡ for lowercase.

Forms and variants

• 
  Form used in certain publications in Surgut Khanty or Tofalar; especially in the fonts PT Sans or PT Serif.
• 
  Form also sometimes used in publications in Tofalar, especially Rassadin 2005.

Sources

• Рассадин, В. И. (2005). Словарь тофаларско-русский и русско-тофаларский (in Russian). Санкт-Петербург: Дрофа. ISBN 5-94745-111-5.
• Волкова, А. Н.; Соловар, В. Н. (2016). Краткий русско-хантыйский словарь (сургутский диалект) (PDF) (in Russian and Khanty). Ханты-Мансийск: Югорский формат. ISBN 978-5-9907703-2-4. VolkovaSolovar2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Волкова, А. Н.; Соловар, В. Н. (2018). Хантыйско-русский тематический словарь (сургутский диалект) (PDF) (in Russian and Khanty). Санкт-Петербург: Издательство РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена. ISBN 978-5-8064-2560-8. VolkovaSolovar2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Related letters and other similar characters

• Ч ч : Cyrillic letter Che
• У у : Cyrillic letter U
• Y y : Latin letter Y