Gol he, also called choá¹Âë he, is one of the two variants of the Arabic letter he/hÃÂþ (ÃÂ) that are in use in the Urdu alphabet, the other variant being the do-casÃÂhmë he (), also called hÃÂ-'e-makÃÂhlà «t. The letter is named for its shape in the isolated form, gol meaning "round" in Hindustani, to distinguish it from the do-casÃÂhmë he, which is really a calligraphic variant of the "two-eyed" regular he in the medial position (). Its various non-isolated forms originated in the Nastaÿlëq script or calligraphic hand, though various zigzag (medial) and hook (final) forms of hÃÂþ have existed before the script was developed.
The letter (encoded at U+06C1) replaces the regular he (encoded at U+0647) in Urdu (as well as the Punjabi Shahmukhi alphabet) for the voiced glottal fricative but is usually pronounced in the word-final position (exception include certain two-letter words such as or ) while the do-casÃÂhmë he is used in digraphs for aspiration and breathy voice and hence never used word-initially.
For comparison, the do-casÃÂhmë he (not used word-initially) and the regular Arabic letter: