Ha or He (Shha in Unicode) (Һ һ; italics: Һ һ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] Its form is derived from the Latin letter H (H h h), but the capital forms are more similar to a rotated Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч) or a stroke-less Tshe (Ћ ћ) because the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) already has the same form as the Latin letter H.
| Ha/He (Shha) | |
|---|---|
| Һ һ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /h/, /ħ/, /ʰ/, /ɣ/ |
| History | |
| Development | H h
|
Most of the languages using the letter call it ha - the name shha was created when the letter was encoded in Unicode, as the name ha was already taken by Kha. (Х х)
Shha often represents the voiceless glottal fricative /h/, like the pronunciation of ⟨h⟩ in "hat"; and is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
| Language | Notes | Phoneme |
|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijani | 1939–1991, now uses a Latin alphabet (Still used by Dagestan) | /h/,/ħ/ |
| Bashkir | /h/ | |
| Buryat | /h/ | |
| Dolgan | /h/ | |
| Kalmyk | /ɣ/ | |
| Kazakh | Only used in Arabic, Persian loanwords and some exceptions | /h/ |
| Kildin Sami | Also represented by the modifier letter apostrophe (ʼ) | /◌ʰ/ |
| Kurdish | /h/ | |
| Tatar | /h/ | |
| Yakut | /h/ |
Computing codes
edit| Preview | Һ | һ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1210 | U+04BA | 1211 | U+04BB |
| UTF-8 | 210 186 | D2 BA | 210 187 | D2 BB |
| Numeric character reference | Һ |
Һ |
һ |
һ |
See also
edit- - Shha with hook
- Ԧ ԧ - Shha with descender
References
edit- ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
