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{{Short description|Fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets}}{{Unsourced|date=July 2023}}{{for|the Japanese letter|He (kana)}}{{for|the English pronoun|he (pronoun)}}
{{Phoenician glyph|letname=He|previouslink=Dalet|previousletter=Dalet|nextlink=Waw (letter)|nextletter=Waw|archar=ه|sychar=ܗ|hechar=ה|amchar=he0|gechar=ሀ|phchar=he|grchar=[[Ε]]|lachar=[[E]], [[Latin epsilon|Ɛ]]|cychar=[[Ye (Cyrillic)|E]], [[Є]], [[Э]], [[Ҩ]]|ipa={{IPAlink|h}}|num=5|gem=5}}'''He''' is the fifth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Semitic abjads]], including [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]] ''hē'' [[File:Phoenician_he.svg|12px|]], [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] ''hē'' <big>ה</big>, [[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]] ''hē'' [[File:He0.svg| 12 px]], [[Syriac alphabet|Syriac]] ''hē'' <big>
The [[Proto-Canaanite_alphabet|proto-Canaanite]] letter gave rise to the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] [[Epsilon]] Ε ε, [[Etruscan alphabet|Etruscan]] [[File:Alfabeto camuno-e.svg|14px|E]] 𐌄, [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] [[E]], [[Ë]] and [[Latin epsilon|Ɛ]], and [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] [[Ye (Cyrillic)|Е]], [[Yo (Cyrillic)|Ё]], [[Ukrainian Ye|Є]], [[E (Cyrillic)|Э]], and [[O-hook|Ҩ]]. ''He'', like all Phoenician letters, represented a [[consonant]], but the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents have all come to represent [[vowel]] sounds.
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