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Also known as Hwair, ƕair

thumb|100px|Form of the Gothic letter|class=skin-invert-image thumb|right|Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright's [[Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)|class=skin-invert-image]] Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.

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Ƕ, ƕ(Hwair, Ƕair)是哥德字母 (U+10348)𐍈 的转写,代表 wh 的音。这个字母约在1900年出现,以代替 hv 连字。 ƕ 表示 /xʷ/ 或 /ʍ/ 音。这是印欧语系唇软腭音 *kʷ 在經歷格里姆定律後所变成的。同一个音在古英语和古高地德语通常拼作 hw。 小写字母 ƕ 自 Unicode 1.0 版被收录,而大写字母 Ƕ 则在 Unicode 3.0 版被收录。

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