Ge with stroke and hook (Ӻ ӻ; italics: Ӻ ӻ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г Г г) by adding a horizontal stroke and a hook. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with stroke and hook".[1] It is similar in shape to the Latin letter F with hook (Ƒ ƒ) but is unrelated.

Ge with stroke and hook is only used in the Nivkh language, where it represents the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, like the r in French.[2]

It can be replaced by the ge with stroke and descender, which has not yet been encoded in Unicode.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ӻ ӻ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK 		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1274 U+04FA 1275 U+04FB
UTF-8 211 186 D3 BA 211 187 D3 BB
Numeric character reference Ӻ Ӻ ӻ ӻ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 43. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23.
  2. ^ "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Wolfram Siegel. in Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Simon Ager (ed.). http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nivkh.htm Accessed 2011-04-23.