Kha with hook (Ӽ ӽ; italics: ''Ӽ ӽ'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...

. In

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, this letter is called "Ha with hook". Its form is derived from the Cyrillic Kha (Х х ''Х х'') by adding a hook to the right leg. Kha with hook is used in the alphabets of the Itelmen and

Nivkh Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: * Nivkh people The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, ''Nʼivxgu'' (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, ''Nʼiɣvŋgun'' (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an indigenous et ...

languages, where it represents the

voiceless uvular fricative The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , the Greek chi. The sound is represented by (ex with underdot) in Ame ...

. Kha with hook is also used in the

Aleut language Aleut () or ''Unangam Tunuu'' is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut , the origin of the state name Alaska). Aleut is the sole language in the ...

(Bering dialect). It is the thirty-ninth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. The letter Kha with descender (Ҳ ҳ ''Ҳ ҳ'') is sometimes used for this sound instead because of letter font support.

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Unicode proposal N2933
Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with hook {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub

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