Rough Breathing - Technical Notes

Technical Notes

In Unicode, the code point assigned to the rough breathing is U+0314 ̔ combining reversed comma above. The pair of space + rough breathing is U+1FFE ῾ greek dasia.

The rough breathing was also used in the early Cyrillic alphabet when writing the Old Church Slavonic language. In this context it is encoded as Unicode U+0485 ҅ combining cyrillic dasia pneumata

In Latin transcription of Semitic languages, especially Arabic and Hebrew, a symbol similar to the rough breathing U+02BF ʿ modifier letter left half ring, is used to represent the letter ayin.

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