Ge (Cyrillic)
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Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox Ge or He (Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, pronounced differently in different languages.
It arose directly from the Greek letter gamma and looks exactly like it; that is, capital Ge looks like capital gamma, while small Ge looks like capital gamma, but is smaller.
In standard Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian language Ge is voiced velar plosive, i.e., it is pronounced like the G in "go".
In Ukrainian and Belarusian language it is called "He", and pronounced, not as a voiced velar plosive, but as a voiced glottal fricative (hear)—a voiced counterpart of the English H, while the voiced velar plosive is the voiced counterpart of K.
In Ukrainian 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, and reintroduction of ghe into the Belarusian alphabet is only a proposal by some linguists, not supported officially.
Code positions
| Character encoding | Case | Decimal | Hexadecimal | Octal | Binary |
| Unicode | Capital | 1043 | 0413 | 002023 | 0000010000010011 |
| Small | 1075 | 0433 | 002063 | 0000010000110011 | |
| ISO 8859-5 | Capital | 179 | b3 | 263 | 0010110011 |
| Small | 211 | d3 | 323 | 0011010011 | |
| KOI 8 | Capital | 231 | e7 | 347 | 0011100111 |
| Small | 199 | c7 | 307 | 0011000111 | |
| Windows 1251 | Capital | 195 | c3 | 303 | 0011000011 |
| Small | 227 | e3 | 343 | 0011100011 |
Its HTML entities are: Г or Г for capital and г or г for small letter.