O-hook (Ҩ ҩ; italics: ''Ҩ ҩ'') 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 ...

. It is derived from the initial form of the Arabic letter hāʾ, . In the

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text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha". Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/). In English, O-hook is commonly

romanized In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, ...

using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ ọ) but its

ISO 9 ISO 9 is an international standard establishing a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and non-Slavic languages. Published on February 23, 1995 by the Internation ...

transliteration is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò ò). O-hook is used in the alphabet of the

Abkhaz language Abkhaz, also known as Abkhazian, is a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza language, Abaza. It is spoken mostly by the Abkhazians, Abkhaz people. It is one of the official languages of Abkhazi ...

where it represents the labial-palatal approximant , the sound of in French "" (). It is placed between Ы and Џ in the alphabet.

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* In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK.

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