O-hook explained

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, (Arabic: هـ). In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha". Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (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).

O-hook is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language where it represents the labial-palatal approximant pronounced as //ɥ//, the sound of (ui) in French "" (in French pronounced as /ɥi/). It is placed between Ы and Џ in the alphabet.

Computing codes

• In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK.

References

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Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF . The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 . 2010 . 42 . 2011-05-13.