Kha (Cyrillic)
Kha 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.
It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in “loch”.
Kha is usually romanized as ⟨kh⟩ when romanizing East Slavic languages and romanized as ⟨h⟩ when romanizing South Slavic languages.
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 had a value of 600.
Usage
Russian
Kha is the twenty-third (if Yo is included) letter of the Russian alphabet. It represents the consonant /x/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel when it represents /xʲ/.
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.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Χ χ : Greek letter Chi
- H h : Latin letter H
- X x : Latin letter X
- ﺥ : Arabic letter Ḫāʾ
Computing codes
| Character | Х | х | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1061 | U+0425 | 1093 | U+0445 |
| UTF-8 | 208 165 | D0 A5 | 209 133 | D1 85 |
| Numeric character reference | Х | Х | х | х |
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 232 | E8 | 200 | C8 |
| Code page 855 | 182 | B6 | 181 | B5 |
| Code page 866 | 149 | 95 | 229 | E5 |
| Windows-1251 | 213 | D5 | 245 | F5 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 197 | C5 | 229 | E5 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 149 | 95 | 245 | F5 |
