U0445

U+0445, commonly written as U0445 in certain notations, is the Unicode code point for the Cyrillic small letter ha. It corresponds to the lowercase Cyrillic character х, with the uppercase counterpart being Cyrillic capital letter HA (U+0425). This character is used in languages that employ the Cyrillic script, such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and many others.

The official Unicode name for this character is CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA. The glyph resembles the Latin letter x but is considered a distinct Cyrillic letter in alphabetic order and encoding.

In terms of encoding and rendering, U+0445 is part of the Unicode standard and is supported by virtually all modern fonts and software. In UTF-8, the character is represented by two bytes, and it can be displayed correctly in contexts that support Cyrillic script.

Phonologically, the letter typically represents the voiceless velar fricative [x], similar to the sound of the German ch in Bach or Scottish loch. When transliterated into Latin script, it is commonly rendered as "kh" in many transliteration systems, though some schemes use "h" or other conventions depending on linguistic context.

Usage and history: The Cyrillic small letter ha is part of the Cyrillic block in Unicode and has appeared since the early versions of the standard. It occurs in many native Cyrillic-language words as well as loanwords, contributing to the set of sounds characteristic of the Cyrillic orthographies.