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Cyrillic letter O-hook 
Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+04A8 minuscule: U+04A9 Cyrillic script
Slavic lettersА Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я Non-Slavic letters Ӑ Ӓ Ә Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚉ Ӗ Ӂ Җ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ Ӧ Ө Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ Ӯ Ӱ Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ҵ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ӹ Ҍ Ӭ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ Archaic letters Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ Ꙓ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs O-hook (Ҩ ҩ; italics: Ҩ ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhasian 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 dot below (Ọ ọ).
O-hook is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labial-palatal approximant /ɥ/, the sound of ⟨u⟩ in French "luit". It is placed between O and Π in the alphabet.
Computing codes
character Ҩ ҩ Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ABKHASIAN HACYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ABKHASIAN HAcharacter encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 1192 04A8 1193 04A9 UTF-8 210 168 D2 A8 210 169 D2 A9 Numeric character reference Ҩ Ҩ ҩ ҩ - In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK.
References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
Further reading
- Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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