Kha with hook

Kha with hook (Ӽ ӽ; italics: Ӽ ӽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ha with hook". Its form is derived from the Cyrillic Kha (Х х Х х) by adding a hook to the right leg.

Kha with hook is used in the alphabets of the Itelmen and Nivkh languages, where it represents the voiceless uvular fricative , like the Scottish ch in loch, but harder. Kha with hook is also used in the Aleut language (Bering dialect). It is the thirty-ninth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. In Eastern Khanty's Vakh-Vasyugan dialect it represents the /ɣ/ sound.

The letter Kha with descender (Ҳ ҳ Ҳ ҳ) is sometimes used for this sound instead because of letter font support.

Computing codes

See also Ꜧ ꜧ : Latin letter H with hook Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

External links Unicode proposal N2933