{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /ɣ/ in Yukaghir and Yakut}} {{distinguish | text=the number 5, the Cyrillic letter Ꚋ, or the Serbian Cyrillic letter Ђ}} {{Infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Ge with middle hook | image = Cyrillic letter Ghe with Middle Hook.svg | imageclass = skin-invert-image | imagealt = | phonemes = {{IPAslink|ɣ}} | number = | fam1 = | letter = Ҕ ҕ | language = Yakut, Yukaghir | unicode = U+0494, U+0495 }}

'''Ge with middle hook''' (Ҕ&nbsp;ҕ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ҕ&nbsp;ҕ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Yukaghir and Yakut languages to represent the voiced velar fricative {{IPA|/ɣ/}}. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook".<ref>"Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of ''The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0'' (2010). p. 42. https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-25.</ref> The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the Ossetian language from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and Gothic 𐌷 (hagl).<ref>{{in lang|ru}} ''Шёгрен А. М.'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=NTdFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9 Осетинская грамматика с кратким словарем осетинско-российским и российско-осетинским.] — СПб., 1844. — С. 9.</ref>

==Usage== {{angbr|Ҕ}} is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between {{angbr|Г}} and {{angbr|Д}}. It was formerly also the seventh letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs {{angbr|Гә}} and {{angbr|Ҕь}}; it was replaced by the letter {{angbr|Ӷ}}.

Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.

==Computing codes==

{{charmap |0494|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter<br />Ghe with Middle Hook |0495|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Ghe with Middle Hook }}

==See also== *Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge *Ғ ғ : Cyrillic letter Ghayn *Ӷ ӷ : Cyrillic letter Ge with descender *Ҕ̀ ҕ̀ : Cyrillic letter Ge with middle hook and grave

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