H with descender

H with descender (Ⱨ ⱨ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a small descender. It was used in Uyghur to represent [h] (~ English h), while a regular H was used to represent [x] (~ German ch in ach).

This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when a Latin alphabet, the Uyghur New Script, was introduced for writing Uighur to replace the Arabic script, until 1984–86 when the Latin alphabet was phased out and the official script was changed back to Arabic. The equivalent Arabic letter is ھ.

Computing codes

character Ⱨ ⱨ
character encoding decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 11367 1U+2C67 11368 2U+2C68
UTF-8 226 177 167 E2 B1 A7 226 177 168 E2 B1 A8
HTML numeric Ⱨ Ⱨ ⱨ ⱨ
1 Unicode name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER
2 Unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER
Ⱨ was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006).

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