U+04A8 "Ҩ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04A8 "Ҩ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, used exclusively in the Abkhaz language to represent the voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound /ħ/, which is similar to the "h" sound but produced deeper in the throat. Its lowercase counterpart is U+04A9 "ҩ", and the letter is typically romanized as "ḥ" or sometimes "h" in linguistic texts. Although part of the Cyrillic alphabet, it is not found in standard Slavic languages, having been introduced specifically for Abkhaz orthography in the mid-20th century. The glyph visually resembles a standard Cyrillic "Ҥ" but with a distinct horizontal stroke through the middle, setting it apart from similar characters in the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter O Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a8 |
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 | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Case Folding | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҩ" U+04A9 Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| 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 |