Ge with descender

Cyrillic letter Ge with descender
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̄ А̊ А̃ Ӓ Ӓ̄ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Г̧ Г̑ Г̄ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚃ Ꚁ Ꚉ Ԫ Ԭ Ӗ Е̄ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ӂ Җ Ꚅ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ И̃ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ О̆ О̃ О̄ Ӧ Ө Ө̄ Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Р̌ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ꚑ Ҭ Ꚋ Ꚍ Ԏ У̃ Ӯ Ӱ Ӱ́ Ӳ Ү Ү́ Ұ Х̑ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ꚕ Ҵ Ꚏ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̈́ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ꙁ Ꙃ Ꙅ Ꙇ Ꙉ Ҁ Ѻ ОУ Ꙋ Ѡ Ѽ Ꙍ Ѿ Ꙏ Ѣ Ꙑ Ꙓ Ꙕ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Ꙡ Ꙣ Ꙥ Ꙧ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ
List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs

Ge with descender (Ӷ ӷ; italics: Ӷ ӷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г Г г) by adding a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with descender".^[1]

Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages (for details consult the articles on the languages):

Language	Pronunciation
Abkhaz	voiced velar fricative or voiced uvular fricative /ɣ ~ ʁ/
Ket	voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/ or voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/[2]
Nivkh	voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/[3][4]
Siberian Yupik	voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/[5]

Computing codes

Character	Ӷ		ӷ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1270	U+04F6	1271	U+04F7
UTF-8	211 182	D3 B6	211 183	D3 B7
Numeric character reference	Ӷ	Ӷ	ӷ	ӷ

See also

• Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge
• Ҕ ҕ : Cyrillic letter Ge with middle hook

References

1. "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.
2. Вернер, Г. К. (1997). "Кетский язык". Языки мира. Палеоазиатские языки. Москва: Индрик.
3. Груздева, Е. Ю. (1997). "Нивхский язык". Языки мира. Палеоазиатские языки. Москва: Индрик.
4. "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Wolfram Siegel. in Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Simon Ager (ed.). http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nivkh.htm Accessed 2011-04-23.
5. Меновщиков, Г. А. (1997). "Азиатских эскимосов язык". Языки мира. Палеоазиатские языки. Москва: Индрик.