It is used in Maltese for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letter heth of Semitic abjads: Arabic: ح, Hebrew: ח).
Lowercase ħ is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound.
[1] In Unicode, the special character ℏ (U+210F), represents the reduced Planck constant (h/2π) of quantum mechanics.
The lowercase resembles the Cyrillic letter Tshe (ћ), or the astronomical symbol of Saturn (♄).
A white uppercase Ħ on a red square was the logo of Heritage Malta until 2022.