ASCII Character ה

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including the Hebrew alphabet. Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon, Latin E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, Ё, Є, Э, and Ҩ. In gematria, Hei symbolizes the number five, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years, it means 5000 (i.e. התשנ״ד in numbers would be the date 5754). In modern Hebrew the frequency of the usage of hei, out of all the letters, is 8.18%.