Pe with descender (Ԥ ԥ; italics: ''Ԥ ԥ'') is a letter of the

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. It is used in the alphabet of the

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, where it represents the aspirated consonant , like the pronunciation of in "pack", replacing the now-obsolete letter .

Related letters and other similar characters

*П п : Cyrillic letter Pe *Ҧ ҧ : Cyrillic letter Pe with middle hook

In modern Runet culture

This letter can be a

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for the

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word " пиздец" (a total disaster, failure). It is basically a contraction of the letters П and Ц, the first and the last letters of the word. Russian-English slang dictionary: пиздец

Computing codes

{{charmap , 0524, name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter
Pe with Descender , 0525, name2=Cyrillic Small Letter
Pe with Descender

Notes

External links

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3435R
*http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0500.pdf
PT Sans
an
PT Serif
fonts
Deja Vu fonts
Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with descender (diacritic)

Related letters and other similar characters

In modern Runet culture

Computing codes

See also

Notes

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