įøŖÄŹ¾ or KhÄŹ¾ or Xe (Ų®, transliterated as įø« (DIN-31635), įøµ (Hans Wehr), kh (ALA-LC) or įŗ (ISO 233)), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being į¹ÆÄŹ¼, įøÄl, įøÄd, įŗÄŹ¼, Ä”ayn). It is based on the įø„ÄŹ¾ Ų. It represents the sound [x] or [Ļ] in Modern Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of Ų® is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch", Russian Ń
(Cyrillic Kha), Greek Ļ and Peninsular Spanish and Southern Cone "j". In name and shape, it is a variant of įø„ÄŹ¾. South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian , Ge'ez įøŖarm į. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals).
When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ×׳.
The most common transliteration in English is "kh", e.g. Khartoum (Ų§ŁŲ®Ų±Ų·ŁŁ
al-Kharį¹Å«m), Sheikh (Ų“ŁŲ®).
įøŖÄŹ¾ is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
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