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⟩.
Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.
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
- Ҕ̀ ҕ̀ : Cyrillic letter Ge with middle hook and grave
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.