Shha or He (Һ һ; italics: Һ һ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] Its form is derived from the Latin letter H (H h H h), but the capital forms are more similar to a rotated Cyrillic letter Che (Ч) or a stroke-less Tshe (Ћ) because the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) already has the same form as the Latin letter H.
Most of the languages using the letter call it ha - the name shha was created when the letter was encoded in Unicode.
Shha represents the voiceless glottal fricative /h/, like the pronunciation of ⟨h⟩ in "hat"; and is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Language | Notes | Phoneme |
---|---|---|
Azerbaijani | 1939–1991, now uses a Latin alphabet (Still used by Dagestan) | /h/,/ħ/ |
Bashkir | /h/ | |
Buryat | /h/ | |
Dolgan | /h/ | |
Kalmyk | /ɣ/ | |
Kazakh | rarely used,[2] being replaced by Latin H | /h/ |
Kildin Sami | /◌ʰ/ | |
Kurdish | /h/ | |
Tatar | /h/ | |
Yakut | /h/ |
Computing codes
Preview | Һ | һ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1210 | U+04BA | 1211 | U+04BB |
UTF-8 | 210 186 | D2 BA | 210 187 | D2 BB |
Numeric character reference | Һ |
Һ |
һ |
һ |
References
- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ^ Бектурова, А.Ш. (2004). Казахский язык для всех. Атамұра. ISBN 9965-05-910-1.
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