This letter is not what it seems! It is pronounced as a hard "h," like the "ch" in "Bach" or "loch." It is generally written in English as "kh," (as seen in the name "Chekhov"). In handwriting, it looks like Хх.
Химик ("khimik") is a chemist. Here is Dmitri Mendeleev, who is famous for pioneering the Periodic Table of the Elements. Not only did he create one of the main early tables on which our current one is based, but he predicted the existence of several of the elements not known at the time!
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