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O-hook
Cyrillic letter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha".[1] Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/ϑ). In English, O-hook is commonly romanized using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ ọ) but its ISO 9 transliteration is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò ò).
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O-hook is used in the 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 alphabet.
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Computing codes
- In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK.
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