Ge with middle hook

Not to be confused with the number 5 or the Serbian Cyrillic letter Ђ.

Ge with middle hook
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ɣ]

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

⟨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

Character information

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

• 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

1. "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.
2. (in Russian) Шёгрен А. М. Осетинская грамматика с кратким словарем осетинско-российским и российско-осетинским. — СПб., 1844. — С. 9.