Kha or Ha (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.

It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative , similar to how some Scottish speakers pronounce the  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 has 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 it represents .

Ossetian
Kha represents the voiceless uvular fricative  in Ossetian. The digraph ⟨хъ⟩ represents the voiceless uvular plosive .

Belarusian
Kha is also an alternative transliteration of the letter خ Ḫāʼ in the Arabic alphabet. This was used in Belarusian Arabic script, corresponding to the above Cyrillic letter.

Related letters and other similar characters
Χ χ : Greek letter Chi
Ξ ξ : Greek letter Ksi
H h : Latin letter H
J j : Latin letter J
X x : Latin letter X
ﺥ : Arabic or Persian letter Ḫāʾ
Һ һ : Cyrillic letter Ha
Ѯ ѯ : Cyrillic letter Ksi
ख़ : Devanagari letter Ḵẖa
ਖ਼ : Gurumukhi letter Ḵẖa

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