Hā with hamza above

is a letter of the Pashto and Persian languages consisting of hāʾ with a hamza above.

Usage In the Pashto alphabet, it is the fortieth letter, known as Kajira He, where it represents the vowel and is transliterated .

In Persian, it is not considered a distinct letter of the alphabet but is used when marking ezafe on a word ending in , thus yielding . According to one source, this is not actually a hamza but rather a development of the letter ye as a diacritic.

In both written Pashto and Persian, it only appears in the final position:

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