Cyrillic letter
O-hook (Ҩ ҩ; italics: Ҩ ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is derived from the initial form of the Arabic letter hāʾ, ⟨هـ⟩.[citation needed] In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha".[1] Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/ϑ). In English, O-hook is commonly romanized using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ ọ) but its ISO 9 transliteration is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò ò).
O-hook is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language where it represents the labial-palatal approximant /ɥ/, the sound of ⟨ui⟩ in French "huit" ([ɥi]). It is placed between Ы and Џ in the alphabet.
Computing codes
Character information
Preview |
Ҩ |
ҩ
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Unicode name
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CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA
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CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA
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Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
dec |
hex
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Unicode |
1192 |
U+04A8 |
1193 |
U+04A9
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UTF-8 |
210 168 |
D2 A8 |
210 169 |
D2 A9
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Numeric character reference |
Ҩ |
Ҩ |
ҩ |
ҩ
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- In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK.
References
Further reading
- Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.