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| Cyrillic letter Ghe | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 3 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0413 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0433 | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| 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 | Ꚉ | 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 | Ԥ |
| Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
| Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
| Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
| Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Ghe or Ge (Г г; italics: Г г) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is also known in some languages as He. It commonly represents the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨g⟩ in "go".
Ghe is generally romanized using the Latin letter G; but when romanizing Belarusian, Ukrainian and Rusyn, the Latin letter H is used.
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The Cyrillic letter Ghe was derived directly from the Greek letter Gamma (Γ γ), but the lowercase Ghe is a small version of the capital letter.
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was глаголи (ɡlaɡoli), meaning "speak".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ge had a numerical value of 3.
In standard Serbian, Ghe always represents the voiced velar plosive [ɡ]. In Macedonian the letter represents the sound /g/. However, if the letter is at the end of the word it is pronounced as /k/, like in рог /rɔk/ ('horn').
In standard Russian, Ghe represents the voiced velar plosive [ɡ], except when it is devoiced to [k] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant, and it represents [ɡʲ] before a palatalizing vowel. In south-western Russia, the sound becomes the velar fricative [ɣ], and sometimes the glottal fricative [ɦ] in regions bordering Belarus and Ukraine.
It is acceptable to pronounce certain Russian words with [ɣ] (referred to as Ukrainian Ge): Бог, богатый, благо, Господь (Bog, bogatyj, blago, Gospod’), although not all speakers use or agree with this. The 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]
In the Russian adjective/pronoun ending -ого, -его, Ghe represents [v], including in the word сегодня ("today", from сего дня).
The letter Ghe represents a voiceless [x] (not [k]) in front of the letter Ka in two Russian words, namely, мягкий and лёгкий.
The Latin letter H at the beginning of a word of English origin is transliterated into Russian with Ghe rather than Kha as one might expect, for historical reasons of phonology/orthography, e.g. hero → герой.[citation needed]
In Bulgarian, the letter Ghe represents a voiced velar plosive [ɡ], except when it is devoiced to [k] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant, and represents [ɡʲ] before a palatalizing vowel.
In Belarusian and Ukrainian, Ghe is called He, and represents a voiced glottal fricative [ɦ]—a breathy voiced counterpart of the English [h], (listen).
In Ukrainian, a voiced velar plosive [ɡ] is rarely present, and when present it is written with the Cyrillic letter Ghe with upturn (Ґ ґ).
| character | Г | г | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE |
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| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode[2] | 1043 | 0413 | 1075 | 0433 |
| UTF-8 | 208 147 | D0 93 | 208 179 | D0 B3 |
| Numeric character reference | Г | Г | г | г |
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 231 | E7 | 199 | C7 |
| CP 855 | 173 | AD | 172 | AC |
| Windows-1251 | 195 | C3 | 227 | E3 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 179 | B3 | 211 | D3 |
| Mac Cyrillic | 131 | 83 | 227 | E3 |
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