Kha with hook

Not to be confused with the letter Kha with descender (Ҳ).

Kha with hook (Ӽ ӽ; italics: Ӽ ӽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[1] In Unicode, this letter is called "Ha with hook".^[1] Its form is derived from the Cyrillic Kha (Х х Х х) by adding a hook to the right leg.

Kha with hook
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/χ/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Kha with hook is used in the alphabets of the Itelmen and Nivkh languages, where it represents the voiceless uvular fricative /χ/, like the Scottish ch in loch, but harder. Kha with hook is also used in the Aleut language (Bering dialect).^[2] It is the thirty-ninth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet.

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

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӽ		ӽ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA WITH HOOK		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA WITH HOOK
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1276	U+04FC	1277	U+04FD
UTF-8	211 188	D3 BC	211 189	D3 BD
Numeric character reference	Ӽ	Ӽ	ӽ	ӽ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode