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]
⟨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.
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 |
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