Shha or He (Һ һ; italics: ''Һ һ'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...

. Its form is derived from the Latin letter H (H h ''H h''), but the capital forms are more similar to a rotated Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч) or a stroke-less

Tshe __NOTOC__ Tshe (or Tje) (Ћ ћ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate , somewhat like the pronunciation of in "chew"; however, ...

(Ћ ћ) because the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) already has the same form as the Latin letter H. Most of the languages using the letter call it ''ha'' - the name ''shha'' was created when the letter was encoded in Unicode. Shha often represents the

voiceless glottal fricative The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition, and sometimes called the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant ''phonologically'', but ...

, like the pronunciation of in "hat"; and is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

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