Ḥet or H̱et (also spelle Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician ḥēth , Syriac ḥēth ܚ, Hebrew chet (also khet) ח, Arabic ḥāʼ ح (in abjadi order), and Berber .