Kha with hook

Kha with hook
Ӽ ӽ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/χ/, /ɣ/

Kha with hook (Ӽ ӽ; italics: Ӽ ӽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] In Unicode, this letter is called "Ha with hook".[1] Its form is derived from the Cyrillic Kha (Х х Х х) by adding a hook to the right leg.

Kha with hook is used in the alphabets of the Itelmen and Nivkh languages, where it represents the voiceless uvular fricative /χ/, like the Scottish ch in loch, but harder. Kha with hook is also used in the Aleut language (Bering dialect).[2] It is the thirty-ninth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. In Eastern Khanty's Vakh-Vasyugan dialect it represents the /ɣ/ sound. [3]

The letter Kha with descender (Ҳ ҳ Ҳ ҳ) is sometimes used for this sound instead because of letter font support.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ӽ ӽ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
HA WITH HOOK
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
HA WITH HOOK
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1276 U+04FC 1277 U+04FD
UTF-8 211 188 D3 BC 211 189 D3 BD
Numeric character reference Ӽ Ӽ ӽ ӽ

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 43. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  2. ^ Головко, Е. В. (1994). Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) [Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect)]. Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение". p. 14. ISBN 5-09-002312-3.
  3. ^ G.L., Nakhracheva; Solovar, V.N.; Shiyanova, A.A. (2016). DIALEKTY KHANTYYSKOGO YAZYKA ДИАЛЕКТЫ ХАНТЫЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА. Khanty-Mansisk: Obsko-ugorskiy institut prikladnykh issledovaniy i razrabotok. ISBN 978-5-9631-0510-8.