He (letter)
Fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the English pronoun, see he (pronoun).
For the Japanese letter, see He (kana).
He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).
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He | |
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Phoenician | 𐤄 |
Hebrew | ה |
Aramaic | 𐡄 |
Syriac | ܗ |
Arabic | ه |
Phonemic representation | h |
Position in alphabet | 5 |
Numerical value | 5 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Ε |
Latin | E |
Cyrillic | Е, Є, Э, Ҩ |
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The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ε,[1] Etruscan 𐌄, Latin E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, Ё, Є, Э, and Ҩ. He, like all Phoenician letters, represented a consonant, but the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents have all come to represent vowel sounds.