Ĥ
Latin letter H with circumflex; used in Esperanto / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ĥ or ĥ is a letter of some extended Latin alphabets, most prominently a consonant in Esperanto orthography, where it represents a voiceless velar fricative [x] or voiceless uvular fricative [χ]. Its name in Esperanto is ĥo (pronounced /xo/), or ĥi in the Kalocsay abecedary.
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It is also used in the revised Demers/Blanchet/St Onge orthography for Chinook Jargon.[1]
In the case of the minuscule, some fonts place the circumflex centered above the entire base letter h, others over the riser of the letter, and others over the shoulder.
ĥ in the fonts Code2000, Sylfaen, Pragmatica Esperanto
Ĥ is the eleventh letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as hx and hh respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as H with a circumflex: ĥ.