| O-hook | |
|---|---|
| Ҩ ҩ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Abkhaz |
| Sound values | [ɥ~ɥˤ] |
| History | |
| Development | ھ
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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⟩. Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/ϑ) and Latin letter Q. In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha".[1]
Its ISO 9 Romanization is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò ò).[2] In English, O-hook is commonly romanized using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ ọ).
O-hook is used in the Cyrillic 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 Abkhaz alphabet.[3]
Computing codes
| Preview | Ҩ | ҩ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHAZIAN HA |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHAZIAN HA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1192 | U+04A8 | 1193 | U+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" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
- ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation - Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters - Slavic and non-Slavic languages. International Standards Organization. p. 8.
- Hewitt, George (2010). Abkhaz: A Comprehensive Self-Tutor. Lincom Europa. pp. 18–20.
Further reading
- Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.