U+0495 "ҕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0495 "ҕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ge, distinguished by a small hook attached to the middle of its vertical stem. It is primarily used in the alphabets of several minority languages in Russia, including Aleut, Itelmen, and Kildin Sami, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the "g" in the English word "go" but articulated further back in the throat. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode standard in 1993 as part of version 1.1, ensuring that these less common languages could be accurately represented in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0495 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ge Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0495 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000495 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0495 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ҕ" U+0494 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҕ" U+0494 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҕ" U+0494 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҕ" U+0494 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Middle Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |