Ge

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Cyrillic letter Ge
Cyrillic numerals: 3
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0413
minuscule: U+0433
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Ge or He (Г, г, italics: Г, г) is the fourth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing /ɡ/ or /ɦ/ in different languages.

It arose directly from the Greek letter gamma and both capital and small Ge look like the capital letter gamma.

In standard Serbian and Macedonian, Ge always represents the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/, i.e., it is pronounced like the g in English go.

In standard Russian, it represents a voiced velar plosive except when it is devoiced to [k] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant and represents [ɡʲ] before a palatalizing vowel. Also, in some masculine genitive and accusative case word endings, it represents /v/ when found between two vowels. In south-western Russia, the sound becomes a fricative [ɣ], and sometimes [ɦ] in regions bordering Belarus and Ukraine. It is acceptable to pronounce certain Russian words with [ɣ] (referred to as Ukrainian g): Bog, bogatyj, blago, Gospod’, although not all speakers use or agree with this. This sound is normally considered non-standard or dialectal in Russian and is avoided by educated Russian speakers. Бог (Bog, “God”) is always pronounced [box] in the nominative case. ^[1]

With an adjective/pronoun ending in -ого, -его, the letter <г> indicates /v/ in Russian only, including the word сегодня ('today', from "сего дня").

The letter <г> represents a devoiced [x] (not [k]) in front of the letter <к> in two words in Russian, namely, мягкий and лёгкий. In the Bulgarian like in Russian it represents a voiced velar plosive except when it is devoiced to [k] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant and represents [ɡʲ] before a palatalizing vowel.

In the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages, <г> is called He, and represents a voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/ (listen)—a voiced counterpart of the English h.

In Ukrainian, a voiced velar plosive is rarely present, and when present it is written with the Ukrainian letter ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ).

Code positions

Notes

See also

• Gje
• Ghe
• G, g - Latin
• Γ, γ - Gamma (Greek)