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| He | |
|---|---|
| Phoenician | 𐤄 |
| Hebrew | ה |
| Aramaic | 𐡄 |
| Syriac | ܗ |
| Arabic | ه |
| Phonemic representation | h, (ʔ) |
| Position in alphabet | 5 |
| Numerical value | 5 |
| Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
| Greek | Ε |
| Latin | E |
| Cyrillic | Е, Є, Э, Ҩ |
He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic hāʾ ه, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Hebrew hē ה, Phoenician hē 𐤄, and Syriac hē ܗ. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).
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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.