The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, sometimes spelled as 'het' or 'ḥet', representing a guttural sound.
From Hebrew ḥēth, an ancient Semitic letter whose original pictograph may have represented a fence or enclosure. The letter appears in many transliterated Hebrew words in English.
The letter heth is one of those letters that makes a sound your throat makes before you've even learned it—it's the guttural 'kh' sound like in 'Bach' or Arabic 'khaleej,' and it's been around for over 3,000 years!
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