Back Stimmloser pharyngaler Frikativ ALS حلقي احتكاكي مهموس Arabic Беззвучна глътъчна проходна съгласна Bulgarian Ruzenn c'hargadenn divouezh BR Fricativa faríngia sorda Catalan Neznělá faryngální frikativa Czech Stimmloser pharyngaler Frikativ German Fricativa faríngea sorda Spanish سایشی حلقی بیواک FA Soinniton faryngaalinen frikatiivi Finnish
| Voiceless pharyngeal fricative | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ħ | |||
| IPA number | 144 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ħ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0127 | ||
| X-SAMPA | X\ | ||
| Braille |   | ||
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The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is an h-bar, ⟨ħ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X\. In the transcription of Arabic, Berber (and other Afro-Asiatic languages) as well as a few other scripts, it is often written ⟨Ḥ⟩, ⟨ḥ⟩.
Typically characterized as fricative in the upper pharynx, it is often characterized as a whispered [h].