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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 .

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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: Arabic script
Grapheme.type: Abjad
Grapheme.language: Arabic language
Grapheme.phonemes: ,
Grapheme.alphanumber: 7
Grapheme.direction: Right-to-left

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Unicode character: خ
native label: خَاء
Commons category: خ
Unicode code point: 062E
Unicode character name: ARABIC LETTER KHAH
HTML entity: خ

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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.