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