O-hook

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, . Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/) and Latin letter Q. In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha".

Its ISO 9 Romanization is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò ò). 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 , the sound of in French "" (). It is placed between Ы and Џ in the Abkhaz alphabet.

Computing codes

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.