خ
Also known as ARABIC LETTER KHAH, khah, khāʾ, ḫāʾ
''' or (, transliterated as (DIN-31635), (Hans Wehr), (ALA-LC) or (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It is based on the ' . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪍, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
Key facts
- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Ṯāʾ
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Ṯāʾ
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Ḏāl
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Ḏāl
- Semitic letter.letname
- Ḫāʾ
- Semitic letter.archar
- خ
- Semitic letter.ipa
- x, χ
- Semitic letter.num
- 24
- Semitic letter.gem
- 600
- Semitic letter.gechar
- ኀ
- Grapheme.name
- Ḫāʾ خَاء
- Grapheme.letter
- خ
- Grapheme.script
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''' or (, transliterated as (DIN-31635), (Hans Wehr), (ALA-LC) or (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It is based on the ' . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪍, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
It represents the sound or in Modern Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch", Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), Greek χ and Peninsular Spanish and Southern Cone "j". In name and shape, it is a variant of . South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian class=skin-invert-image|14px|ḫ, Ge'ez ኀ. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals). In most European languages, it is mostly romanized as the digraph kh.