Ge (Cyrillic)

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Ge or He (Г, г, italics: Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing /g/ 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, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages Ge always represents voiced velar plosive /g/, 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 [gʲ] 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.

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

In Ukrainian, a voiced velar plosive is rarely present, and when present it is to be written with the Ukrainian letter ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ). In the Belarusian language, it was supposedly more frequent (to render words borrowed from Polish and Russian), but during the twentieth century the distinction in usage blurred significantly. Reintroduction of ge into the Belarusian alphabet is only proposed by some linguists and not supported officially.

Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1043	0413	002023	0000010000010011
Unicode	Small	1075	0433	002063	0000010000110011
ISO 8859-5	Capital	179	b3	263	0010110011
ISO 8859-5	Small	211	d3	323	0011010011
KOI 8	Capital	231	e7	347	0011100111
KOI 8	Small	199	c7	307	0011000111
Windows 1251	Capital	195	c3	303	0011000011
Windows 1251	Small	227	e3	343	0011100011

Its HTML entities are: Г or Г for capital and г or г for small letter.

Ge (Cyrillic)

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