Che with hook explained

Heading:Cyrillic letter Che with hook
Sound:pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Language:Tofa language, Surgut Khanty
Fam1:Ч ч
Type:alphabet

Che with hook (sometimes Ч̡ ч̡, italics: Ч̡ ч̡) is an allograph of the letter che with descender (Ҷ, ҷ) in the Cyrillic script. It represents a voiced or voiceless postalveolar affricate.

Usage

It has been used for the Surgut dialect of Eastern Khanty and the Tofa language.

Computing codes

It has no Unicode encodement. Uppercase may be encoded as U+1C8B and Lowercase as U+1C8C.[1] As of 2024, it is available in the font AncientSans in Private use area, U+E012 for Uppercase and U+E013 for lowercase.[2] It can sometimes be encountered as ч with combining palatal hook, as Ч̡ for uppercase and ч̡ for lowercase

Sources

References

  1. Web site: Unicode . Proposal to encode Cyrillic Che with Hook-rev . 22280-cyrillic-che-with-hook.pdf .
  2. Web site: Unicode . Private use Area .  in AncientSans font. .

Related letters and other similar characters

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