He (letter)

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenicianhē 𐤄, Hebrewhēה, Aramaichē 𐡄, Syriachē ܗ, and Arabichāʾه. It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪀‎‎‎, South Arabian𐩠, and Ge'ezሀ. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).

The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the GreekEpsilon Ε ε, Etruscan 𐌄, LatinE, Ë and Ɛ, and CyrillicЕ, Ё, Є, Э, and Ҩ. He, like all Phoenician letters, represented a consonant, but the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents have all come to represent vowel sounds.