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.