| Ge with stroke and hook | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | ʁ |
Ge with stroke and hook or descender (Ӻ ӻ; italics: Ӻ ӻ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г Г г) by adding a horizontal stroke and a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with stroke and hook".[1] It is similar in shape to the Latin letter F with hook (Ƒ ƒ) but is unrelated.
The letter is only used for the Nivkh language, where it represents the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, like the r in French.[2] There are two common designs: the original form with a straight descender (
, 
), and a variant with a hook designed by Просвещение (Enlightenment) publishing house.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ӻ | ӻ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1274 | U+04FA | 1275 | U+04FB |
| UTF-8 | 211 186 | D3 BA | 211 187 | D3 BB |
| Numeric character reference | Ӻ | Ӻ | ӻ | ӻ |
See also
References
- "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 43. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23.
- Ager, Simon (ed.). "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Wolfram Siegel. Retrieved 2011-04-23.