Hwe (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with ɦ.

Hwe (Ꚕ ꚕ; italics: Ꚕ ꚕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form was derived from the Cyrillic letter Shha (Һ һ Һ һ) by adding a hook to the top of the left leg.^[1]

Hwe
Ꚕ ꚕ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Abkhaz language
Sound values	/ħʷ/
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Hwe is used in the old Abkhaz alphabet, where it represents the labialized voiceless pharyngeal fricative /ħʷ/. It corresponds to Ҳә. Its appearance is similar to the letter հ (ho) used in the Armenian script, but the difference between հ and ꚕ is that հ represents /h/ and ꚕ represents /ħʷ/.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꚕ		ꚕ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HWE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HWE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42644	U+A694	42645	U+A695
UTF-8	234 154 148	EA 9A 94	234 154 149	EA 9A 95
Numeric character reference	Ꚕ	Ꚕ	ꚕ	ꚕ

See also

• Ҳ ҳ : Cyrillic letter Kha with descender
• Ɦ ɦ : Latin letter H with hook
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
• Ᏺ ᏺ : Cherokee letter Yo
• ɦ : Voiced glottal fricative