U+04BB "һ" Cyrillic Small Letter Shha Unicode Character

U+04BB "һ" Cyrillic Small Letter Shha is a distinct Cyrillic letter used primarily in the Bashkir and Kazakh languages to represent a voiceless glottal fricative sound, similar to the English "h", which differentiates it from the similar-looking Latin "h" and the standard Cyrillic "х". It was added to the Unicode standard in version 1.1 and is often confused with the Latin lowercase "h" due to its identical visual form, though it has a separate code point and distinct linguistic function. This character is integral to correctly writing specific Turkic and Uralic languages within the Cyrillic script, ensuring that native words are represented with their proper phonetic values.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04BB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Shha
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter H
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	һ
HTML Hex Encoding	һ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD2 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04bb

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	"Һ" U+04BA Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Һ" U+04BA Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha
Uppercase Code Point	"Һ" U+04BA Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha
Titlecase Code Point	"Һ" U+04BA Cyrillic Capital Letter Shha
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