Kha (Cyrillic)

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Kha хѣръ (Early Cyrillic alphabet)
Х х
Cyrillic letter Kha - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Usage
Writing system Cyrillic
Type Alphabetic
Sound values[ x ], [ χ ], [ h ]
History
Development
Χ χ
  • Х х
Other
Associated numbers600 (Cyrillic numerals)
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The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А А̂ А̄ Ӑ Ӓ Б В Г
Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Е̂ Е̄ Ё
Є Є́ Ж З З́ Ѕ И І
І́ Ї Ꙇ И̂ Ӣ Й Ӥ Ј
К Л Љ М Н Њ О О̂
О̄ Ӧ П Р С С́ Т Ћ
Ќ У У̂ Ӯ Ў Ӱ Ф Х
Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ꙏ Ъ Ы
Ь Э Ю Я ʼ ˮ
Non-Slavic letters
А̊ А̃ Ӓ̄ Ӕ Ә Ә̃ Ӛ В̌
Ԝ Г̑ Г̇ Г̣ Г̌ Г̂ Г̆ Г̈
Г̊ Ҕ Ғ Cyrillic capital letter Ghe with stroke and descender.svg Ӻ Ғ̌ Ғ̊ Ӷ
Г̡ Д́ Д̌ Д̈ Д̣ Д̆ Ӗ Е̃
Ё̄ Є̈ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Җ Ӝ Ӂ Ж̣
Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̣ З̆ Ӡ И̃ И̇
Ҋ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ К̣ К̊
Қ̊ Ԛ ᴫ Л́ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Л̈
Ӎ ᵸ Н́ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ
О̆ О̃ Ӧ̄ Ө Ө̄ Ө́ Ө̆ Ӫ
Ԥ П̈ Р̌ Ҏ С̌ Ҫ С̣ С̱
Т́ Т̈ Т̌ Т̇ Т̣ Ҭ Ᲊ У̃
У̌ Ӳ У̊ Ӱ̄ Ұ Ү Ү́ Х̣
Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Х̌ Ҳ Ӽ Х̊ Ӿ
Ӿ̊ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ц̌ Ц̈ Ҵ Ҷ
Ҷ̣ Ӵ Ӌ Cyrillic capital letter Che with hook.svg Ҹ Ч̇ Ч̣ Ҽ
Ҿ Ш̣ ꚜ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ ꚝ Ҍ
Ҩ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈
Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ӏ
Archaic or unused letters
Cyrillic capital letter script A.svg А̨ Б̀ Б̣ Б̱ В̀ Г̀ Г̧
Г̄ Г̓ Г̆ Ҕ̀ Ҕ̆ Cyrillic capital letter split by middle ring Ghe.svg Ԁ Д̓
Д̀ Д̨ Cyrillic capital letter archaic Dje.svg Ԃ Ꚁ Ꙣ Е̇ Е̨
Ж̀ Ж̑ Cyrillic small letter Zhe with stroke.svg Cyrillic capital letter Je with inverted belt.svg Ꙃ Ꙅ Cyrillic small letter Dje with high right breve serif.svg Џ̆
Ꚅ Ꚅ̆ Ꙁ З̀ З̑ Ԅ Ԇ Ꚉ
Ԫ Ꚃ Ꚕ Cyrillic capital letter Shha with Cil top.svg Cyrillic capital letter Shha with high right breve serif.svg І̂ І̣ І̨
Cyrillic capital letter byelorussian-ukrainian I with curve at bottom.svg Ј̵ Ј̃ Ꙉ К̓ К̀ К̆ Ӄ̆
К̑ К̇ К̈ К̄ Ԟ К̂ Cyrillic capital letter Ka with loop.svg Cyrillic small letter ka with ascender.svg
Л̀ Ԡ Ꙥ Ԉ Л̑ Л̇ Ԕ Cyrillic small letter El with retroflex hook.svg
Cyrillic small letter El Er.svg Cyrillic small letter Te El with retroflex hook.svg М̀ М̃ Ꙧ Н̀ Н̄ Н̧
Н̃ Ԋ Ԣ Н̡ Ѻ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ
ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ Cyrillic small letter O with notch at top.svg Cyrillic capital letter O with notch at bottom.svg Cyrillic capital letter O with left notch.svg П̓ П̀
П́ Ҧ П̧ П̑ Ҁ Ԛ̆ Cyrillic capital letter Shha with hook.svg Р́
Р̀ Р̃ Cyrillic small letter split at right Er.svg Ԗ С̀ С̈ Ԍ Ҫ̓
Cyrillic capital letter long Es.svg Т̓ Т̀ Ԏ Т̑ Ꚋ Т̧ Ꚍ
Ꚍ̆ Cyrillic small letter Te El.svg Cyrillic small letter voiceless L.svg Cyrillic small letter voiceless L with comma above.svg Ѹ Ꙋ Cyrillic capital letter script U.svg У̇
У̨ ꙋ́ Ф̑ Ф̓ Х́ Х̀ Х̆ Х̇
Х̧ Х̾ Х̓ Cyrillic capital letter bashkir Ha.svg һ̱ Ѡ Ꙍ Ѽ
Ѿ Ꙡ Ц̀ Ц́ Ц̓ Cyrillic capital letter Tse with long left leg.svg Ꚏ Ꚏ̆
Cyrillic capital letter Cil.svg Cyrillic capital letter Cil with bar.svg Ꚑ Ч́ Ч̀ Ч̆ Ч̑ Ч̓
Cyrillic capital letter Char.svg Cyrillic small letter Char with high right breve serif.svg Ԭ Ꚓ Ꚇ Ꚇ̆ Ҽ̆ Ш̀
Ш̆ Ш̑ Щ̆ Ꚗ Ꚗ̆ Cyrillic capital letter Che Sha.svg Ъ̄ Ъ̈
Ъ̈̄ Ꙑ Ы̂ Ы̃ Cyrillic small letter Yeru with connecting stroke.svg Ѣ Ѣ́ Ѣ̈
Ѣ̆ Ꙓ Э̨ Э̂ Ꙕ Ю̂ Cyrillic capital letter iotified monograph uk.svg Cyrillic capital letter iotified monograph uk with breve.svg
Ꙗ Я̈ Я̂ Я̨ Ԙ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ
Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ
Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Old Serbian Ha.svg
Kha, from Elisabeth Boehm's alphabet book Elizaveta Bem's Azbuka - Kh text.jpg
Kha, from Elisabeth Boehm's alphabet book

Kha, Khe, Xe or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It looks the same as the Latin letter X (X x X x), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the Greek letter Chi, which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha. [1]

Contents

It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/, similar to how some Scottish speakers pronounce the ⟨ch⟩ in “loch”, but has different pronunciations in different languages.

Kha is romanised as ⟨kh⟩ for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as ⟨ch⟩ for Belarusian and Polish, while being romanised as ⟨h⟩ for Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Kazakh. It is also romanised as ⟨j⟩ for Spanish.

History

The Cyrillic letter Kha was derived from the Greek letter Chi (Χ χ).

The name of Kha in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was хѣръ (xěrŭ).

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Kha has a value of 600.

Usage

Russian

Kha is the twenty-third letter of the Russian alphabet. It represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel, when it represents /xʲ/.

Ossetian

Kha represents the voiceless uvular fricative /χ/ in Ossetian. The digraph ⟨хъ⟩ represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.

Belarusian

Kha is also an alternative transliteration of the letter خ Ḫāʼ in the Arabic alphabet. This was used in Belarusian Arabic script, corresponding to the above Cyrillic letter.

Ukrainian

Kha is the twenty-sixth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet. It represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/.

Aleut

In Aleut, kha represents /x/. Kha with inverted breve (Х̑ х̑) represents the voiceless uvular fricative (/χ/).

Figurative meanings of "хѣръ"

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewХх
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HACYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode 1061U+04251093U+0445
UTF-8 208 165D0 A5209 133D1 85
Numeric character reference ХХхх
Named character reference Хх
KOI8-R and KOI8-U 232E8200C8
Code page 855182B6181B5
Code page 866 14995229E5
Windows-1251 213D5245F5
ISO-8859-5 197C5229E5
Macintosh Cyrillic 14995245F5

References

  1. ↑ Bourgholtzer, Frank (31 May 2023). Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-000-94657-4.
  2. ↑ ""Хер"" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2017-02-13. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  3. ↑ ""Хер"" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Левин Ю. И. Об обсценных выражениях русского языка // Левин Ю. И. Избранные труды. Поэтика. Семиотика. — М., 1998. — С. 809—819
  5. ↑ "Русская бранная лексика: цензурное и нецензурное". philology.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  6. ↑ ""Хер"". Gramota.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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