Ge with descender (Ӷ ӷ; italics:
''Ӷ ӷ'') 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, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
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 letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
For example, in the letter ''y'', the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the ''v'' c ...
. In
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
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.]
Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages (for details consult the articles on the languages):
Computing codes
See also
*Г г :
Cyrillic letter Ge
*Ҕ ҕ :
Cyrillic letter Ge with middle hook
References
{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with descender (diacritic)