H with descender

H with descender (Ⱨ ⱨ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a small descender. It was used in Uyghur to represent [h] (~ English h), while a regular H was used to represent [x] (~ German ch in ach).

This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when a Latin alphabet, the Uyghur New Script, was introduced for writing Uighur to replace the Arabic script, until 1984–86 when the Latin alphabet was phased out and the official script was changed back to Arabic. The equivalent Arabic letter is ھ.

Computing codes

character	Ⱨ		ⱨ
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	11367	1U+2C67	11368	2U+2C68
UTF-8	226 177 167	E2 B1 A7	226 177 168	E2 B1 A8
HTML numeric	Ⱨ	Ⱨ	ⱨ	ⱨ

¹ Unicode name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER

² Unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER

Ⱨ was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006).

See also

• Ꜧ ꜧ : Latin letter Heng
• Ⱪ ⱪ : Latin letter K with descender
• Ⱬ ⱬ : Latin letter Z with descender
• Ң ң : Cyrillic letter En with descender
• Ҳ ҳ : Cyrillic letter Kha with descender
• Ԧ ԧ : Cyrillic letter Shha with descender