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Ĥ, or ĥ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless velar fricative or voiceless uvular fricative . Its name in Esperanto is ''ĥo'' (pronounced ). It is also used in the revised Demers/Blanchet/St Onge orthography for Chinook Jargon. In the case of the minuscule, some fonts place the circumflex centred above the entire base letter h, others over the riser of the letter, and others over the shoulder. : ==Reported demise== Ĥ was always the least used Esperanto letter/sound (though it usually has more dictionary entries than ĵ), and most of its uses are in Greek etyms, where it represented chi. Since the latter is pronounced () in most languages, neologistic equivalents soon appeared in which "ĥ" was replaced by "k", such as ''teĥniko'' → ''tekniko'' ("technology") and ''ĥemio'' → ''kemio'' ("chemistry"). Some other ĥ-replacements followed unusual patterns, such as ''ĥino'' → ''ĉino'' ("Chinese ()"). These additions and replacements came very early and were in general use by World War I. Since then the imminent demise of ĥ has been often discussed, but has never really happened. There are very few modern ĥ-replacements, notably ''koruso'' for ''ĥoro'' ("chorus"). Some ĥ-words are preferred to existing replacements (old or new), such as ''ĥaoso'' vs. ''kaoso'' ("chaos"). Several words commonly use ĥ, particularly those of non-Greek etymology (''ĥano'' ("khan"), ''ĥoto'' ("jota"), ''Liĥtenŝtejno'' ("Liechtenstein"), etc.) or those in which there is another word that uses "k" in that context. The latter include *''eĥo'' ("echo") — ''eko'' ("beginning") *''ĉeĥo'' ("Czech") — ''ĉeko'' ("bank check") *''ĥoro'' ("chorus") — ''koro'' ("heart"), ''horo'' ("hour") 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ĥ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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