O-hook

O-hook
Ҩ ҩ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Abkhaz
Sound values	[ɥ~ɥˤ]
History
Development	ھ Ҩ ҩ
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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⟩.^{[citation needed]} 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).^{[citation needed]}

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

Character information

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

1. "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
2. ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation - Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters - Slavic and non-Slavic languages. International Standards Organization. p. 8.
3. 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.