Ḫāʼ
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| Arabic alphabet | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ﺍ ﺏ ﺕ ﺙ ﺝ ﺡ | |||||
| ﺥ ﺩ ﺫ ﺭ ﺯ س | |||||
| ﺵ ﺹ ﺽ ﻁ ﻅ ﻉ | |||||
| ﻍ ﻑ ﻕ ﻙ ﻝ | |||||
| ﻡ ﻥ ه ﻭ ﻱ | |||||
| History · Transliteration Diacritics · Hamza ء Numerals · Numeration | |||||
Ḫāʼ (ﺥ, transliterated as either ḫ (DIN-31635) or ẖ (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʼ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ, ġayn). It represents the voiceless velar fricative (IPA: [x]). In name and shape, it is a variant of ḥāʼ (see also there). South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian Image:Himjar kha.PNG, Ge'ez Ḫarm ኀ.
Ḫāʼ is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
| Position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isolated | Initial | Medial | Final | |
| ﺥ | ﺥـ | ـﺥـ | ـﺥ | |
[edit] See also
ar:خarc:خ ca:Ḫā de:Cha (Arabischer Buchstabe) fr:Khā it:Ḫāʾ ms:Kha ja:خ th:คออุ tr:Ḫāʼ
