U+0494 "Ҕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook Unicode Character
U+0494 "Ҕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ge, distinguished by a small hook added to the middle of its vertical stem, and it is primarily used in the alphabets of several minority languages within the Russian Federation, such as Yakut, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound (similar to the 'g' in the English word "go" but pronounced with a slight friction in the back of the throat). This character was introduced to Cyrillic-based orthographies to accurately transcribe phonetic distinctions that are not covered by the standard letter Г, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text processing and typography for these languages, ensuring proper representation in documentation, literature, and online communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0494 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ge Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0494 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000494 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0494 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Case Folding | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҕ" U+0495 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |