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

Che with hook
Ч̡ ч̡
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Tofa language, Surgut Khanty
Sound values	/t͡ʃ/ /d͡ʒ/
History
Development	Ч ч Ч̡ ч̡

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.

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.

Computing codes

This letter has not been encoded in Unicode.

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