O-hook

O-hook (Ҩ&nbsp;ҩ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">Ҩ&nbsp;ҩ</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is derived from the initial form of the Arabic letter hāʾ, . Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ&nbsp;θ/) and Latin letter Q. In the Unicode text-encoding standard, this letter is called "Abkhazian Ha".

Its ISO 9 Romanization is the Latin letter O with grave accent (Ò&nbsp;ò). In English, O-hook is commonly romanized using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ&nbsp;ọ).

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

Computing codes

• In Unicode version 1.0, the letters were called <small>CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER O HOOK</small>.

References

Further reading

• Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.