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Arabic alphabet
	ا ب ت ث ج ح
	خ د ذ ر ز س
	ش ص ض ط ظ ع
	غ ف ق ك ل
	م ن ه‍ و ي
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Ḫāʾ (ﺥ, transliterated as ḫ (DIN-31635), ẖ (ISO 233), "kh" or "x") 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]). The pronunciation of ﺥ is very similar to German, Scottish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch", Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), and Spanish "j". 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. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals).

The most common transliteration in English is "kh", e.g. Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), sheikh (شيخ).

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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