Ge with middle hook
| Ge with middle hook | |
|---|---|
| Ҕ ҕ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Yakut, Yukaghir |
| Sound values | /ɣ/ |
| In Unicode | U+0494, U+0495 |
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 source]⟨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⟩.
Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.
Computing codes
[edit source]| 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
[edit source]References
[edit source]- ↑ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 42. https://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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