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H with stroke (Ħ)

Letter of the Latin alphabet used in Maltese language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

H with stroke (Ħ)
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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.

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Letter "Ħ"
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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]

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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

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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]


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