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{{Short description|Latin letter H with descender}}
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'''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 language|Uyghur]] to represent {{IPAblink|h}} (~ English ''h''), while a regular ''H'' was used to represent {{IPAblink|x}} (~ [[German language|German]] ''ch'' in ''ach'').<ref>{{Cite web |last=Janbaz |first=Waris Abdukerim |last2=Saleh |first2=Imad |last3=Duval |first3=Jean Rahman |title=An Introduction to Latin-Script Uyghur |url=http://www.uyghurdictionary.org/excerpts/An%20Introduction%20to%20LSU.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011133618/http://www.uyghurdictionary.org/excerpts/An%20Introduction%20to%20LSU.pdf |archive-date=11 October 2017 |access-date=8 September 2023 |website=uyghurdictionary.org |page=8}}</ref> 

This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when a Latin alphabet, the [[Uyghur New Script]], was introduced for writing Uyghur 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]], while the [[Cyrillic]] equivalent is the [[shha]] (Һ һ).



The capital letter is [[Homoglyph|homoglyphic]] to the [[Cyrillic|Cyrillic letter]] [[en with descender]] (Ң ң) used in various [[Turkic languages]], including Uyghur itself in its own [[Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic alphabet]]. Its lowercase form is homoglyphic with the [[shha with descender]] used in the [[Tat language (Caucasus)|Tati]] and [[Juhuri language|Juhuri]] languages.

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==Computing codes==
{{Charmap|2C67|2C68|name1=Latin Capital Letter H With Descender|name2=Latin Small Letter H With Descender}}
Ⱨ was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006).<ref>https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/DerivedAge.txt {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>

==See also==
*Ꜧ ꜧ : [[Heng (letter)|Latin letter Heng]]
*Ⱪ ⱪ : [[K with descender|Latin letter K with descender]]
*Ⱬ ⱬ : [[Ⱬ|Latin letter Z with descender]]
*Ң ң : [[En with descender (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter En with descender]]
*Ҳ ҳ : [[Kha with descender|Cyrillic letter Kha with descender]]
*Ԧ ԧ : [[Shha with descender|Cyrillic letter Shha with descender]]
*Ꞑ ꞑ : [[N with descender|Latin letter N with descender]]

== References ==
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