Ge with middle hook (Ҕ ҕ; italics: Ҕ ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Yukaghir 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 𐌷 (hagl).[2]
Usage Edit
⟨Ҕ⟩ is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between ⟨Г⟩ and ⟨Д⟩. It was formerly also the seventh letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs ⟨Гә⟩ and ⟨Ҕь⟩; it was replaced by the letter ⟨Ӷ⟩.
Computing codes Edit
Preview | Ҕ | ҕ | ||
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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 Edit
- Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge
- Ғ ғ : Cyrillic letter Ghayn
- Ӷ ӷ : Cyrillic letter Ge with descender
References Edit
- ^ "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.