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or (unicode:H̱et) (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt 10px, Hebrew Ḥēt , Aramaic Ḥēth 10 px, Syriac Ḥēṯ (unicode:ܚ), and Arabic Ḥā' . Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal , or velar (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ' represents , while ' represents . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta , Etruscan , Latin H and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds. ==Origins== The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for "courtyard", (possibly named in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to , the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for "thread", The corresponding South Arabian letters are (unicode:ḥ) and (unicode:ḫ), corresponding to Ge'ez ሐ and ኀ. 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「Heth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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