U+04B3 "ҳ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender Unicode Character

U+04B3 "ҳ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ha with Descender is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ha (Х, х) distinguished by a downward hook or descender attached to the lower right side of the character. It is primarily used in the alphabets of several non-Slavic languages written with Cyrillic script, such as Tajik, Shughni, and Yaghnobi, where it typically represents a voiceless fricative sound similar to the English "h" rather than the standard Russian velar fricative. In the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet, it corresponds directly to the Persian and Arabic letter He (ه), helping to accurately transcribe loanwords and native phonetic distinctions. The uppercase counterpart is U+04B2 "Ҳ", and the character is encoded in the Cyrillic Unicode block, specifically within the range for extended Cyrillic letters used in Central Asian and Siberian languages.