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Г/г

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Also known as Cyrillic letter ghe, ghe (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter “ghe”

AI overview

"Г/г" is a letter from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian and many other Slavic languages, representing a sound similar to the "g" in English words like "go." It matters because it's one of the fundamental building blocks for reading and writing in these languages.

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Encyclopedic overview

Ge, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book Ge, ghe, or he (Г г; italics: Г г or Г г; italics: Г г) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Most commonly, it represents the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/, like the ⟨g⟩ in "gift", or the voiced glottal fricative [ɦ], like the ⟨h⟩ in "heft". It is generally romanized using the Latin letter g or h, depending on the source language.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Г/г” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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