Kha with vertical tilde
Cyrillic letter
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Kha with vertical tilde (Х̾ х̾) is an additional Cyrillic letter used in the 19th century in the writing of the Polish language. It is composed of the letter Kha with a vertical tilde.
| Kha with vertical tilde | |
|---|---|
| Х̾ х̾ | |
| |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Polish language |
| Sound values | [x] |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | 1863–1874 |
| Transliterations | H h |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | left-to-right |
Usage
Kha with vertical tilde ⟨х̾⟩ was used in the writing of the Polish language, after the January Uprising and the ban on Latin letters in official documents from 1864 to 1904.
The adaptation of the civil script used kha with vertical tilde as an equivalent to the Latin letter H.[1]
Computing codes
Kha with vertical tilde can be represented with the following Unicode characters (Cyrillic, Combining Diacritical Marks) :
| Preview | Х | х | ̾ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA | COMBINING VERTICAL TILDE | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1061 | U+0425 | 1093 | U+0445 | 830 | U+033E |
| UTF-8 | 208 165 | D0 A5 | 209 133 | D1 85 | 204 190 | CC BE |
| Numeric character reference | Х | Х | х | х | ̾ | ̾ |
| Named character reference | Х | х | ||||