Ghayn (Cyrillic)


The Cyrillic letter Ge stroke or Ayn is a Г with a horizontal stroke. It is used in Kazakh and Uzbek where it represents a voiced uvular fricative. Despite having a similar shape, it is not related to the F of the Latin alphabet. In Kazakh, this letter may also represent the voiced velar fricative. It was also used in Uzbek before the adoption of the Latin alphabet in 1992 - this letter corresponds to in the Uzbek Latin alphabet.
The letter is also used in Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Tajik, Karakalpak, and in Siberian Tatar.
Unicode renders this letter as "Ghe with stroke".

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