H with stroke (Ħ)

Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Ћ or the symbol of the reduced Planck constant ℏ.

"ħ" redirects here. For the sound in the IPA represented by ħ, see Voiceless pharyngeal fricative.

Ħ (minuscule: ħ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar. It is used in Maltese for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letter heth of Semitic abjads: Arabic: ح, Hebrew: ח). Lowercase ħ is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound.

Letter "Ħ"

Perez de Ayala's (1556) version of Lord Prayer in Spanish and Andalusian Arabic, page 18. Compare to Maltese:
ħobżna ta' kuljum agħtihulna llum.

The lowercase resembles the Cyrillic letter Tshe (ћ), or the astronomical symbol of Saturn (♄), later used in the alchemical symbol representing lead.

A white uppercase Ħ on a red square was the logo of Heritage Malta until 2022.^[1]

It is used as the symbol for Hedera Hashgraph's native cryptocurrency, HBAR.^[2]

History

An early use of this letter is found in the 1556 work of Pérez de Ayala, slightly modified from Pedro de Alcalá's Vocabulary.^[3]

Computer encoding

	Ħ	ħ
Name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH STROKE	LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE
Unicode	U+0126	U+0127
Latin-3	A1	B1
HTML Character Reference	Ħ	ħ

The letters Ħ and ħ should be displayable on most of today's computers. They were a part of WGL-4 already in 2001.^[4]

See also

• Ĥ