U+04B2 "Ҳ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Descender Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+04B2 "Ҳ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Descender is a modified Cyrillic letter used in several non-Slavic languages, including Abkhaz, Tajik, and Uzbek (before the Latin alphabet reform), where it represents a voiceless velar fricative sound similar to the "ch" in the Scottish "loch" or the "j" in Spanish. Its design consists of the standard Cyrillic letter "Х" (Ha) with a small descender or hook attached to the bottom right of the vertical stem, distinguishing it from the regular "Х" and indicating its unique phonetic value. This character is part of the Cyrillic Unicode block and is encoded specifically to support the orthographic needs of languages that require this distinct consonant sound, helping to preserve accurate spelling and pronunciation in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+04B2
Version Added 1.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Descender
Unicode 1.0 Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Kha with Right Descender
Block Cyrillic
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ҳ
HTML Hex Encoding Ҳ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD2 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x04B2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000004B2
C/C++/Java Escape \u04b2

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 "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
Lowercase Code Point "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
Simple Case Folding "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
Case Folding "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
NFKC Simple Casefold "ҳ" U+04B3 Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender
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