What ሓ means
It writes the consonant ḥ with a long “a” vowel.
Tigrinya’s Latin-letter transcription labels this syllable ḥā; the bar over ā marks a long “a” sound. ሓ is a written syllable, not a word on its own, so the surrounding word supplies the meaning.
The Ethiopic script was developed to write Geʽez and later adopted for Tigrinya and Amharic. The earliest Geʽez epigraphic documents date to the second or third century CE; vocalized Ethiopic writing is attested by the fourth century CE. Its relationship to South Arabian writing is debated.
Which H-like glyph should I use?
Use ሓ for the long-a member of Tigrinya’s ḥ series.
The Tigrinya Latin-letter table labels the forms ሓ as ḥā, ሃ as hā, and ሐ as ḥa. These are distinct spellings, so use the form belonging to the word.
Amharic spelling tools can follow a different convention: one documented normalization workflow maps ሐ and ኀ, including their variants, to ሀ. That workflow treats the family differently from the Tigrinya table.
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Who writes ሓ
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Questions people ask
2Why does ሓ look different in another font?
It can. Ethiopic fonts may draw variant outlines for one conceptual syllable; a different outline alone does not change the character.
Does ሓ work the same in Amharic and Tigrinya?
Not necessarily. The Tigrinya table distinguishes the ḥ row, while one documented Amharic spelling-normalization workflow maps ሐ and ኀ, including their variants, to ሀ.
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How to type or find ሓ
- Also called
- hha · ḥā
- Search it as
- fidel · Tigrinya · ሐ · ሃ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ሓ\1213Ha produces ሓ.Codes and encoding1 code points
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