U+04BA "Һ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04BA "Һ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha is a distinct letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets, most notably in the Bashkir, Kalmyk, and Kazakh languages, where it represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound similar to the English "h" in "house". Its shape resembles the Latin letter "H" but is classified within the Cyrillic block, and it should not be confused with the similar-looking "Shha" used in other contexts. The lowercase form of this character is U+04BB "һ", and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that these languages can be digitally represented and processed consistently across different platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04BA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter H |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Һ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Һ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04ba |
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 | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| Simple Case Folding | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| Case Folding | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "һ" U+04BB Cyrillic Small Letter Shha |
| 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 |