Ḫāʾ
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Phoenician glyph Template:Infobox grapheme Script error: No such module "sidebar". Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., or Xe (Script error: No such module "Lang"., transliterated as Script error: No such module "lang". (DIN-31635), Script error: No such module "lang". (Hans Wehr), Script error: No such module "lang". (ALA-LC) or Script error: No such module "lang". (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang".). It is based on the Script error: No such module "lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".. It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪍, South Arabian Script error: No such module "Lang"., and Ge'ez Script error: No such module "Lang"..
It represents the sound Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink in Modern Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of Script error: No such module "Lang". is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch"[1], Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), Greek χ and Peninsular Spanish and Southern Cone "j". In name and shape, it is a variant of Script error: No such module "lang".. South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian ḫ, Ge'ez Script error: No such module "lang". ኀ. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals). In most European languages, it is mostly romanized as the digraph kh.
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 (Script error: No such module "Lang". al-Kharṭūm), Sheikh (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
Script error: No such module "lang". is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
| Position in word: | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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Ḫā is not related with the letter X, Ḫā has no derivatives.
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