U+0495 "ҕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook Unicode Character

U+0495 "ҕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Middle Hook is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ge, distinguished by a small hook attached to the middle of its vertical stem. It is primarily used in the alphabets of several minority languages in Russia, including Aleut, Itelmen, and Kildin Sami, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the "g" in the English word "go" but articulated further back in the throat. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode standard in 1993 as part of version 1.1, ensuring that these less common languages could be accurately represented in digital text.