ge (cyrillic)

Ge or He (Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, pronounced differently in different languages. It arose directly from the Greek letter gamma and looks exactly like it; that is, capital Ge looks like capital gamma, while small Ge looks like capital gamma, but is smaller. In standard Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian language Ge is voiced velar plosive, i.e., it is pronounced like the G in "go". In Ukrainian and Belarusian language it is called "He", and pronounced without the velar stop, i.e., it is voiced glottal fricative (hear)—a voiced counterpart of the English H, while the voiced velar plosive is the voiced counterpart of K. In Ukrainian voiced velar plosive is rarely present, and when present it is to be written with ghe ( Ґ ). In Belarussian language it was supposedly more frequent (to render words borrowed from Polish and Russian), but during the 20th century the distinction in usage blurred significantly, and reintroduction of ghe into the Belarussian alphabet is only a proposal by some linguists, not supported officially.

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a href="/encyclopedia/Case-(orthography)" title="Case (orthography)">Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
owspan=2\|Unicode	Capital	1043	0413	002023	0000010000010011
\|Small	1075	0433	002063	0000010000110011
owspan=2\|ISO 8859-5	Capital	179	b3	263	0010110011
\|Small	211	d3	323	0011010011
owspan=2\|KOI 8	Capital	231	e7	347	0011100111
\|Small	199	c7	307	0011000111
owspan=2\|Windows 1251	Capital	195	c3	303	0011000011
\|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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