H with stroke
Ħ (minuscule: ħ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar. It is used in Maltese and in Tunisian Arabic transliteration (based on Maltese with additional letters) for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letter heth of Semitic abjads). Lowercase ħ is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound.
In unicode, the special character ℏ (U+210F), represents the reduced Planck constant of quantum mechanics.[1] In this context, it is pronounced "h-bar".
The lowercase resembles the Cyrillic letter Tshe (ћ), or the astronomical symbol of Saturn (♄).
A white uppercase Ħ on a red square is the logo of Heritage Malta.
Computer encoding
As a part of WGL-4, Ħ should be displayable on most computers.
Ħ | ħ | |
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Name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH STROKE | LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE |
Unicode | U+0126 | U+0127 |
Latin-3 | A1 | B1 |
HTML Character Reference | Ħ | ħ |