heth
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Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt , Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪂, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
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- Semitic letter.letname
- Heth
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Zayin
- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Zayin
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Teth
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Teth
- Semitic letter.archar
- ح
- Semitic letter.sychar
- ܚ
- Semitic letter.hechar
- ח
- Semitic letter.smchar
- ࠇ
- Semitic letter.amchar
- 𐡇
- Semitic letter.nbchar
- 𐢊
- Semitic letter.gechar
- ሐ
- Semitic letter.ugchar
- 𐎈
- Semitic letter.phchar
- 𐤇
- Semitic letter.nachar
- 𐪂
- Semitic letter.sachar
- 𐩢
- Semitic letter.grchar
- Η, Ͱ
- Semitic letter.lachar
- H
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12 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Arabic ḥāʾ
- Pronunciation
- Hebrew het
- Pronunciation
- Variations
- Significance
- Syriac cheth
- Character encodings
- See also
- References
- External links
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt , Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪂, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal , or velar . In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ' represents , while ' represents .