Ha or He (Shha in Unicode) (Һ һ; italics:
''Һ һ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic 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, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
.
[ 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
Tshe (or ) (Ћ ћ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate , somewhat like the pronunciation of in "chew"; however, it mus ...
(Ћ ћ) because the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) already has the same form as the Latin letter 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
The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant '' phonologically'', but often lacks the ...
, like the pronunciation of in "hat"; and is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Computing codes
See also
* - Shha with hook
Shha with hook ( , approximated in Unicode as Һ̡ һ̡), also referred to as Heng (letter), Heng, is a letter of the Cyrillic script formerly used in some alphabets in Kabardian language, Kabardian and a 1908 alphabet for Chechen language, Chech ...
* Ԧ ԧ - Shha with descender
Shha with descender (Ԧ ԧ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Shha, Cyrillic letter Shha (Һ һ ''Һ һ'') by the addition of a descender to the right leg.
Shha with descender is us ...
References
External links
Unicode definition
Tatar language
Cyrillic letters
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