Writing and Printing

Kha (Cyrillic)

Kha, Khe, Xe, He or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х or Х х; italics: Х х) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It looks the same as the Latin letter X (X x X x), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the Greek letter Chi, which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha itself. It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/, similar to how some Scottish speakers pronounce the hard ⟨ch⟩ in “loch”, but has different pronunciations in different languages. Kha is romanised as ⟨kh⟩ for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as ⟨ch⟩ for Belarusian and Polish, while being romanised as ⟨h⟩ for Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Kazakh. It is also romanised as ⟨j⟩ for Spanish.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• ▸Jizhou ware
• ▸Concordia Publishing House

Uncatalogued shelf

Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.