O-hook

O-hook
Ҩ ҩ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originAbkhaz
Sound values[ɥ~ɥˤ]
History
Development
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O-hook (Ҩ ҩ; italics: Ҩ ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is derived from the initial form of the Arabic letter hāʾ, هـ. Its form bears some similarities to the Greek letter Theta (Θ θ/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 ò). In English, O-hook is commonly romanized using the Latin letter O with dot below (Ọ ọ).

O-hook is used in the Cyrillic alphabet of the Abkhaz language where it represents the labial-palatal approximant /ɥ/, the sound of ⟨ui⟩ in French "huit" ([ɥi]). It is placed between Ы and Џ in the Abkhaz alphabet.