Abkhazian Kha

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Cyrillic letter Abkhazian Kha
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Ѓ	Д
Ђ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Ќ	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ
О	П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ҕ	Ӗ
Ғ	Ӷ	Ӏ	Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ	Ҙ
Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӣ	Ӥ	Ҋ	Ҡ	Қ
Ҟ	Ҝ	Ӄ	Ӆ	Ӎ	Ң	Ҥ
Ӊ	Ӈ	Ө	Ӫ	Ӧ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ҫ	Ҷ	Ҹ	Ӵ	Ҽ	Ҿ	Ӌ
Ҩ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҭ	Ҵ	Ӳ	Ӯ
Ү	Ұ	Ӱ	Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

Abkhazian Kha (majuscule:Ҩ, miniscule:ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhaz language and placed between "O" and "Π" in the alphabet. This letter represents the labial-palatal approximant /ɥ/, the sound of "u" in French "luit." When romanized, it is written as an "o" with a small dot below the letter.

[edit] Unicode

In the Unicode character repertoire, the letter is called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA and has a code 04A8 for a capital letter and 04A9 for the small one.

In early Unicode versions (1.0), the letters have been called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK, having the same codepoints as today.

[edit] References

Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.