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.