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Ħ (minuscule:ħ) is a letter of theLatin alphabet, derived fromH with the addition of abar. It is used inMaltese for avoiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letterheth of Semiticabjads:Arabic:ح,Hebrew:ח). Lowercaseħ is used in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound.
The lowercase resembles theCyrillic letterTshe (ћ), or theastronomical symbol ofSaturn (♄), later used in thealchemical symbol representing lead.
A white uppercase Ħ on a red square was the logo ofHeritage Malta until 2022.[1]
It is used as the symbol for HederaHashgraph's native cryptocurrency, HBAR.[2]
An early use of this letter is found in the 1556 work ofPérez de Ayala, slightly modified fromPedro de Alcalá's Vocabulary.[3]
| 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 ofWGL-4 already in 2001.[4]
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