Ge or He (Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing or in different languages.

It arose directly from the Greek letter gamma and both capital and small Ge look like the capital letter gamma.

In standard Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian language Ge always represents voiced velar plosive , i.e., it is pronounced like the G in "go".

In standard Russian, it represents a voiced velar plosive except when it is devoiced to word-finally or before a voiceless consonant and represents before a palatalizing vowel.

In Ukrainian and Belarusian language it is called "He", and represents a voiced glottal fricative (Con-46b.wav)—a voiced counterpart of the English H.

In Ukrainian, a voiced velar plosive is rarely present, and when present it is to be written with ghe ( Ґ ). In Belarusian 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. Reintroduction of ghe into the Belarusian alphabet is only proposed by some linguists and not supported officially.

Code positions

Its HTML entities are: Г or Г for capital and г or г for small letter.

See also

• Gje, Ghe, G, Gamma

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