Ḫāʾ, confused, with, khē, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, august, 2009, learn, whe. Not to be confused with Khe This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Ḫaʾ news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2009 Learn how and when to remove this message Ḫaʾ Khaʾ or Xe خ transliterated as ḫ DIN 31635 ḵ Hans Wehr kh ALA LC 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 ṯaʼ ḏal ḍad ẓaʼ ġayn It is based on the ḥaʾ ح It represents the sound x or x in Modern Standard Arabic The pronunciation of خ is very similar to German Irish and Polish unpalatalised ch Russian h Cyrillic Kha Greek x and Peninsular Spanish and Southern Cone j In name and shape it is a variant of ḥaʾ South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate and it appears as South Arabian Ge ez Ḫarm ኀ Its numerical value is 600 see Abjad numerals Ṯaʾ Ḫaʾ Ḏal ArabicخPhonemic representationx xPosition in alphabet24Numerical value600Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician ḪaʾخUsageWriting systemArabic scriptTypeAbjadLanguage of originArabic languagePhonetic usagex xAlphabetical position7HistoryDevelopmentخOtherWriting directionRight to leftThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA For an introductory guide on IPA symbols see Help IPA For the distinction between and see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew it is written as ח The most common transliteration in English is kh e g Khartoum الخرطوم al Kharṭum Sheikh شيخ Ḫaʾ is written is several ways depending in its position in the word Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial Glyph form Help خ ـخ ـخـ خـ Character encodings editCharacter information Preview خ ﺥ ﺦ ﺧ ﺨ Unicode name ARABIC LETTER KHAH ARABIC LETTER KHAHISOLATED FORM ARABIC LETTER KHAHFINAL FORM ARABIC LETTER KHAHINITIAL FORM ARABIC LETTER KHAHMEDIAL FORM Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode 1582 U 062E 65189 U FEA5 65190 U FEA6 65191 U FEA7 65192 U FEA8 UTF 8 216 174 D8 AE 239 186 165 EF BA A5 239 186 166 EF BA A6 239 186 167 EF BA A7 239 186 168 EF BA A8 Numeric character reference amp 1582 wbr amp x62E wbr amp 65189 wbr amp xFEA5 wbr amp 65190 wbr amp xFEA6 wbr amp 65191 wbr amp xFEA7 wbr amp 65192 wbr amp xFEA8 wbr See also editArabic phonology H h Kha Cyrillic nbsp This article related to the Arabic script is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ḫaʾ amp oldid 1217496517, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
