Kha with hook
Cyrillic letter
Kha with hook (Ӽ ӽ; italics: Ӽ ӽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ha with hook". 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). It is the thirty-ninth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. In Eastern Khanty's Vakh-Vasyugan dialect it represents the /ɣ/ sound.
The letter Kha with descender (Ҳ ҳ Ҳ ҳ) is sometimes used for this sound instead because of letter font support.
01Computing codes
| 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 |
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