Heth
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| Phonemic representation | ħ (χ, x) | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 8 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 8 | |||||||||
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Ḥet or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt 
, Hebrew Ḥēt ח, Aramaic Ḥēth 
, Syriac Ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic Ḥā' ح.
Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾ خ represents /x/.
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