U+04FD "ӽ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Hook Unicode Character

U+04FD "ӽ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Hook is a glyph used primarily in certain Cyrillic-based orthographies for minority languages of the Russian Far East and Siberia, such as Itelmen and Aleut. It represents a voiceless uvular fricative sound, similar to the "kh" in the Scottish word "loch" but articulated further back in the throat, and its design consists of the standard Cyrillic letter Ha (Х х) with a small hook attached to the bottom right of its right vertical stroke. This hook modifies the consonant's phonetic value, allowing the character to serve as a distinct letter in these writing systems where precision in representing indigenous phonological contrasts is essential.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04FD
Version Added	5.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Hook
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӽ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04FD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004FD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04fd

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	"Ӽ" U+04FC Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӽ" U+04FC Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӽ" U+04FC Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӽ" U+04FC Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha with Hook
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