He (letter)

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He
Waw →
PhoenicianHe
Hebrew
ה
AramaicHe
Syriac
ܗ
Arabic
ه
Phonemic representationh
Position in alphabet5
Numerical value5
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΕ
LatinE, Ɛ
CyrillicE, Є, Э, Ҩ

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including PhoenicianPhoenician he.svg, Hebrewה, AramaicHe0.svg, Syriacܗ, and Arabic Hāʾ ه. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).

The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ε, Etruscan E