H with stroke



Ħ (minuscule: ħ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar. It is used in Maltese for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letter heth of Semitic abjads: ح, ח). Lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound. It was used for this sound in the 1556 work of Pérez de Ayala, slightly modified from Pedro de Alcalá's Vocabulary.

In Unicode, the special character ℏ (U+210F), represents the reduced Planck constant of quantum mechanics. In this context, it is pronounced "h-bar".

The lowercase resembles the Cyrillic letter Tshe (ћ), or the astronomical symbol of Saturn (♄).

A white uppercase Ħ on a red square was the logo of Heritage Malta until 2022.

It is used as the symbol for Hedera Hashgraph's native cryptocurrency, HBAR.

This Latin letter in its uppercase form Ħ, has been suggested as the International Symbol for "Man-Hug", to provide an alternative to the X (kiss) symbol often found at the end of written communications. The symbol itself is found on the iPhone keyboard by long-pressing the uppercase "H" key.

Computer encoding
As a part of WGL-4, Ħ should be displayable on most computers.