U+04A9 "ҩ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04A9 "ҩ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha is a letter used in the Cyrillic script specifically for the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound /ħ/, a phoneme not found in most Slavic languages. It is the lowercase form of the uppercase character Ҩ, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard enables digital representation and processing of Abkhaz text across modern computing systems. This character is essential for accurately writing words in Abkhaz, such as those containing the sound similar to a gentle catch in the throat, and it highlights the adaptation of the Cyrillic alphabet to accommodate unique phonetics of minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter O Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a9 |
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 | "Ҩ" U+04A8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҩ" U+04A8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҩ" U+04A8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҩ" U+04A8 Cyrillic Capital Letter Abkhasian Ha |
| 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 |