Hey

The fifth character is 'Hey', pronounced with a distinct 'h' sound as it would be in 'hay' or 'hello'. It is on the other hand never pronounced as a 'ch' as in 'chewy':

'Hey' is one of the Alephbet characters that is described as a 'guttural' letter or character because it used to be spoken with a guttural sound produced at the back of the throat.

This is also a character - similar in this way to Aleph - that often appears at the end of words when it is almost always silent. A word that ends with 'Hey' is most commonly a feminine word as well.

'Hey' is also prefixed to words to add a definite article to them i.e. 'the' something. Furthermore, it is a character that will sometimes appear with a dot in the middle but in this case, the additional 'dot' is known as a 'mappiq' rather than a dagesh mark:

In this case, 'Hey' will be pronounced as a closing stop so that there is a faint 'h' sound. The addition of the mappiq may indicate direction by suggesting 'towards' or 'to'.

Introduction to Reading Hebrew
The first basics
The Hebrew AlephBet
The Letters of the AlephBet
Aleph
Bet (Beyt)
Gimmel
Dalet
Hey
Vav
Zayin
Chet
Tet
Yod
Kaf
Lamed
Mem
Nun
Samekh
Ayin
Pey (Fey)
Tsade (Tsadik)
Qof
Resh
Shin
Tav
The Significance of the Alephbet
The Basics of Hebrew Verbs
The Hebrew Verb Subject
The Hebrew Verb Object
Hebrew Verb Tenses
Hebrew Verb Voices and Moods
Hebrew Verb Participles
The Infinite Verb Version
Hebrew Nouns
Hebrew Noun Constructs
Using Prefixes With Nouns
Hebrew Pronouns
Hebrew Plural Nouns
Hebrew Adjectives
Identifying Hebrew Questions
Adverbs, Prepositions and Conjunctions
Hebrew Reading Conclusion