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Kha
Kha may refer to: * Kha (Bengali), a letter * Kha (Cyrillic), a letter * Kha (Indic), a consonant * Ḫāʾ (sometimes khā), Arabic letter خ * Kha, an ancient Egyptian architect and overseer, in Theban Tomb 8, TT8 Theban Tomb 8, abbreviated TT8, is the funerary chapel and tomb of Kha, the overseer of works from Deir el-Medina in the mid- 18th Dynasty and his wife, Merit. Kha was a foreman at Deir El-Medina, where he was responsible for royal tombs construct ... * Kitty Hawk Aircargo, ICAO airline designator {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kha (Indic)
Kha is the second consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, kha is derived from the Brahmi letter , which is Brahmi script#Semitic model hypothesis, probably derived from the Aramaic ("Q"). Mathematics Āryabhaṭa numeration Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals. The values of the different forms of are: * = 2 (२) * = 200 (२००) * = 20,000 (२० ०००) * = 2,000,000 (२० ०० ०००) * = 2 (२×१०८) * = 2 (२×१०१०) * = 2 (२×१०१२) * = 2 (२×१०१४) * = 2 (२×१०१६) Historic Kha There are three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoshthi, and Tocharian, the so-called ''slanting Brahmi''. Kha as found in standard Brahmi, was a simple geometric shape, with slight variations toward the Gupta . The Tocharian Kha did not have an alternate Tocharian alphabet#Scri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kha (Bengali)
The Bengali letter is derived from the Siddhaṃ , and is marked by the lack of a horizontal head line, unlike its Devanagari counterpart, . The inherent vowel of Bengali consonant letters is /ɔ/, so the bare letter will sometimes be transliterated as "kho" instead of "kha". Adding okar, the "o" vowel mark, , gives a reading of /kho/. Like all Indic consonants, can be modified by marks to indicate another (or no) vowel than its inherent "a". in Bengali-using languages is used as a basic consonant character in all of the major Bengali script orthographies, including Bengali and Assamese. Conjuncts with Bengali does not exhibit any irregular conjunct ligatures, beyond adding the standard trailing forms of , ''ya-phala'', and ''ra-phala'', and the leading ''repha'' form of . * + h+bagives us the ligature * + h+yagives us the ligature * + h+ragives us the ligature * while + +khagives us the ligature See also * Kha (Indic) Kha is the second co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ḫāʾ
or or Xe (, transliterated as ( DIN-31635), (Hans Wehr), (ALA-LC) or (ISO 233)), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It is based on the ' . It represents the sound or in Modern Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised " ch", Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), and Peninsular Spanish " j". In name and shape, it is a variant of . South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian , Ge'ez ኀ. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals). When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ח׳. The most common transliteration in English is "kh", e.g. Khartoum ( ''al-Kharṭūm''), Sheikh (). ' is written is several ways depending in its position in the word: Character encodings See also *Arabic phonology * Х, х: Kha (Cyrillic) Arabic lett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kha (Cyrillic)
Kha or Ha (Х х; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It looks the same as the Latin letter 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. It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative , similar to the correct pronunciation of in “loch”. Kha is romanised as for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as for Belarusian, while being romanised as for Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Kazakh. It is also romanised as for Spanish. History The Cyrillic letter Kha was derived from the Greek letter Chi (Χ χ). The name of Kha in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was (''xěrŭ''). In the Cyrillic numeral system, Kha had a value of 600. Usage Russian Kha is the twenty-third letter of the Russian alphabet. It represents the voiceless velar fricative unless it is before a palatalizing vowel, when i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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