Ge with descender (Ӷ ӷ; italics: ''Ӷ ӷ'') 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 ...

formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г ''Г г'') by adding a

descender In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the Baseline (typography), baseline of a typeface, font. For example, in the letter ''y'', the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal li ...

. In

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

this letter is called "Ghe with descender"."Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of ''The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0'' (2010). p. 43. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23.

Usage

Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

Variants

Ge with hook ( Cyrillic_capital_letter_Ghe_with_hook

, sometimes Г̡ г̡, italics: ''Г̡ г̡'') is an

allograph In graphemics and typography, the term allograph is used of a glyph that is a design variant of a letter or other grapheme, such as a letter, a number, an ideograph, a punctuation mark or other typographic symbol. In graphemics, an obvious exa ...

of the letter ge with descender of the

. It has been used in writing Ket and sometimes

Nivkh Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: * Nivkh people (''Nivkhs'') or Gilyak people (''Gilyaks'') * Nivkh languages or Gilyak languages * Gilyak class gunboat, ''Gilyak'' class gunboat, such as the Russian gunboat Korietz#Second gunboat, second R ...

, and in the transcription of

Eskaleut languages The Eskaleut ( ), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of ...

Usage

Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the

voiced uvular plosive The voiced uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a small capital version of the Latin letter g, and the equival ...

� and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender . It is used, in particular, in the

Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, p=səxɐˈlʲin) is an island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, while its southern tip lies north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. An islan ...

dialects and not in the

Amur The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer Manchuria, Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ...

dialect of the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East ( rus, Дальний Восток России, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asia, Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Easte ...

Forms and variants

Ge with hook has the hook attached to the right in

in Taksami 1996, as well as

works such as Ainana 1994, and Vakhtin 2003, in the Chaplino dialect in Menovchtchikov 1988, Menovchtchikov and Vakhtin 1990, Sigunylik 2003, in Naukan Yupik in Menovchtchikov 1975. File:Cyrillic_letter_ghe_with_hook_(form_2).svg, Form used in Eskaleut languages, in Ket or in Nivkh. File:Cyrillic_letter_ghe_with_hook.svg

Computing codes

Ge with hook

Ge with hook has not yet been encoded in

. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with descender with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter, however, it is possible to be in some way approximate it as ge with a combining palatal hook so <Г̡> for uppercase and <г̡> for lowercase. This form is sometimes used instead of Cyrillic_capital_letter_Ghe_with_hook

References

Sources

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Usage

Variants

Usage

Forms and variants

Computing codes

Ge with hook

See also

References

Sources