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Ḫāʼ (ﺥ, transliterated as either ḫ (DIN-31635) or ẖ (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʼ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ, ġayn). It represents the voiceless velar fricative (IPA: [x]). In name and shape, it is a variant of ḥāʼ (see also there). South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian 
, Ge'ez Ḫarm ኀ.
Ḫāʼ is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
| Position in word: |
Isolated |
Initial |
Medial |
Final |
| Form of letter: |
خ |
خـ |
ـخـ |
ـخ |
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