Kha with vertical tilde (Х̾ х̾) is an additional

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...

letter used in the 19th century in the writing of the

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. It is composed of the letter Kha with a vertical tilde.

Usage

Kha with vertical tilde was used in the writing of the

, after the

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and the ban on Latin letters in official documents from 1864 to 1904. The

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of the

civil script Russian orthography has been reformed officially and unofficially by changing the Russian alphabet over the course of the history of the Russian language. Several important reforms happened in the 18th–20th centuries. Early changes Old East ...

used kha with vertical tilde as an equivalent to the Latin letter H.

Computing codes

Kha with vertical tilde can be represented with the following

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characters (

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) :

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Computing codes

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