Abkhazian Che
Abkhazian Che(Ҽ ҽ; italics:Ҽ ҽ) is a letter of theCyrillic script.[1]
Abkhazian Che is used in the alphabet of theAbkhaz language,where it represents thevoiceless retroflex affricate/ʈʂ/.In the alphabet, it is placed between⟨Ҷ⟩and⟨Ҿ⟩.
Resemblance
[edit]The letter only coincidentally resembles a lowercase Latin letter 'e'. Historically, it's the cursive form of the corresponding letter () in theAbkhazian Latin alphabet,where it somewhat resembled a Greekφ.
Cche
[edit]CcheorDouble Che(Ꚇ ꚇ; italics:Ꚇ ꚇ) is a letter of theCyrillic script.[2]It was used in the oldAbkhazalphabets, where it represents thevoiceless retroflex affricate/ʈ͡ʂ/.The letter was invented by baronPeter von Uslar.In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык".[3]The letter is Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled.[3]Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is part of the modernAbkhaz alphabet,which is depicted asҼ.
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ҽ | ҽ | Ꚇ | ꚇ | ||||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CCHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CCHE | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1212 | U+04BC | 1213 | U+04BD | 42630 | U+A686 | 42631 | U+A687 |
UTF-8 | 210 188 | D2 BC | 210 189 | D2 BD | 234 154 134 | EA 9A 86 | 234 154 135 | EA 9A 87 |
Numeric character reference | Ҽ |
Ҽ |
ҽ |
ҽ |
Ꚇ |
Ꚇ |
ꚇ |
ꚇ |
Related characters and other similar characters
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF"(PDF).The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.2010. p. 42.Archived(PDF)from the original on 13 May 2011.Retrieved2011-05-21.
- ^"Cyrillic Extended-B: Range: A640–A69F"(PDF).The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.Unicode Inc. 2010. p. 998.Retrieved31 October2011.
- ^ab"404 Not Found"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 15, 2019.RetrievedMay 11,2023.
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Further reading
[edit]- Daniels, Peter D.The World's Writing Systems.Oxford University Press, 1996.