H

See also: Appendix:Variations of "h" and

H U+0048, H
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
G
[U+0047]
Basic Latin I
[U+0049]
U+FF28, H
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

[U+FF27]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF29]

Translingual

Etymology

From the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, he), from the Ancient Greek letter Η (Ē, eta), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤇 (, het), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗.

Letter

H (lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

H

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for hydrogen.
  2. (physics) Symbol for a henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
  3. (mechanics) Symbol for a generic Hamiltonian.
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
  5. (mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group
  6. (linguistics) high tone
  7. (linguistics) A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
    synonyms: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
  8. (clothing) Bra cup size.

Usage notes

  • (in mathematics) An H with a numerical (or variable) superscript denotes a homology group; with a subscript, it denotes a cohomology group.

See also

Other representations of H:


English

Etymology 1

From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η (-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪtʃ/
  • (non-standard except Ireland) IPA(key): /heɪtʃ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h, plural Hs or H's)

  1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms
See also

Noun

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

  1. (baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
  2. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
    • 1956, Jess Stearn, Sisters of the Night: The Startling Story of Prostitution in New York Today, New York: Julian Messner, Inc., page 59:
      “Anyway, when he came out of Patsy's room, I grabbed him by the arm and said, ‘Gee whiz, doc, haven't you got a couple of pills for me—even demerol?’ ” / Willie broke off to explain. “That's a synthetic. We call them demmies. If you can't buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.”
    • 2006, Hank Williams III (lyrics and music), “Crazed Country Rebel”, in Straight to Hell:
      Then I got some H / From my old Uncle Pete / Now I'm startin' to feel / Like I might've ODed
  3. (journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
    We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
  4. (Britain) A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
    1. A pencil of grade H.
  5. (India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Initialism of Hindu.
Usage notes

Sense 5 is mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.

Meronyms
  • (a half-year): Q (½ H)
Coordinate terms
  • (Indian politics, online slang): M (used by Indian Hindu netizens directed towards Muslims, especially Muslim activists and extremists)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

  1. (Britain) Abbreviation of hard in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
  2. (linguistics) Abbreviation of high |in reference to a dialect's social status.
    An H variety usually enjoys official approval and cultural prestige.
  3. (philately) Abbreviation of hinged.
Meronyms
  • (pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

Number

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

Proper noun

H

  1. (religion) A hypothetical source proposed to underlie the Holiness Code and to have influenced various other parts of the Torah.
    • 2015, Jason M. H. Gaines, The Poetic Priestly Source, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 277:
      H is priestly, evincing concern for cultic sacrifices, cultic observances, the behavior of priests, and ethical matters. H is not P, however, as it has unique vocabulary and contradicts several aspects of Priestly theology, such as the status of the Israelites, the importance of "the land," and whether YHWH or the Israelites own the land.

Etymology 2

Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)

Adverb

H (not comparable)

  1. (calendar terms) Synonym of AH: in the year of the Hegira, used to mark dates employing the Islamic calendar.

Etymology 3

From Japanese エッチ (the Latin letter H), from English H as an abbreviation of 変態 (hentai, perverted; pervert; perverted art).

Noun

H (uncountable)

  1. Hentai.

Afar

Letter

H

  1. The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.

See also


Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

H (plural H's, diminutive H'tjie)

  1. H

Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Southern) /at͡ʃe/, [a.t͡ʃe̞]
  • IPA(key): (Northern) /hat͡ʃe/, [ɦa.t͡ʃe̞]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Basque alphabet, called hatxe and written in the Latin script.

See also


Central Franconian

Etymology

  • /h/ is from West Germanic stem-initial *h.

Pronunciation

  • /h/ (or silent, see below)

Letter

H

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes


Chinese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese H (etchi), initialism of 変態 (hentai, sexual perversion). Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of Mandarin (huáng) or Cantonese (haam4).

Pronunciation


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

Adjective

H

  1. (neologism, slang) dirty; lewd; perverted
  2. (neologism, slang, attributive) sexual; pornographic

Verb

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

Noun

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Pronunciation 1


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

Letter

H

  1. The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2


Letter

H

  1. The seventh letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/

Noun

H n

  1. H (the 10th letter in the Czech alphabet)
  2. (music) B

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦaː/
  • (file)

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also


Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ho/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/
  • (file)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The tenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ho and written in the Latin script.

See also


Estonian

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called haa or hašš and written in the Latin script.

See also


Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h/ (mostly)
  • IPA(key): /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː] (name of letter)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called hoo and written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

H

  1. (music) B

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʃ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the French alphabet, called ache and written in the Latin script.

German

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/
    • The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before /ə/, and before suffixes. In common speech, h is frequently silent in the onset of all word-internal unstressed syllables, thus e.g. in -heit and -haft (unless these have secondary stress).
  • (name) IPA(key): /haː/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -aː

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.
Usage notes
See also

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -aː

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B
Declension

See also

  • B (“B-flat”)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈx]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈhaː]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative H H-k
accusative H-t H-kat
dative H-nak H-knak
instrumental H-val H-kkal
causal-final H-ért H-kért
translative H-vá H-kká
terminative H-ig H-kig
essive-formal H-ként H-kként
essive-modal
inessive H-ban H-kban
superessive H-n H-kon
adessive H-nál H-knál
illative H-ba H-kba
sublative H-ra H-kra
allative H-hoz H-khoz
elative H-ból H-kból
delative H-ról H-król
ablative H-tól H-któl
non-attributive
possessive - singular
H-é H-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
H-éi H-kéi
Possessive forms of H
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. H-m H-im
2nd person sing. H-d H-id
3rd person sing. H-ja H-i
1st person plural H-nk H-ink
2nd person plural H-tok H-itok
3rd person plural H-juk H-ik

See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ha/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈak.ka/
  • Rhymes: -akka
  • (phonemic realization is silent)

Letter

H f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Italian alphabet, called acca and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used in the strings che, chi, ghe, ghi to indicate the stop realisatins /k/, /ɡ/. Also used in the four verb forms [[ho, hai, ha, hanno#Italian|ho, hai, ha, hanno]] to distinguish from [[o, ai, a, anno#Italian|o, ai, a, anno]]. Otherwise it may occur in unadapted borrowings from modern languages. It is not used in loanwords from the classical languages.

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Japanese

Adjective

H(エッチ) (etchi) -na (adnominal H(エッチ) (etchi na), adverbial H(エッチ) (etchi ni))

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual)

Noun

H(エッチ) (etchi) 

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, sexual intercourse)

Verb

H(エッチ)する (etchi suru) suru (stem H(エッチ) (etchi shi), past H(エッチ)した (etchi shita))

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, to fuck; to have sex with)

Conjugation


Kalo Finnish Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Kalo Finnish Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.[1]

Usage notes

Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.[1]

See also

References

  1. Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Aakkoset [Alphabet]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani] (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [x]
(file)

Letter

H

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter H/h (like F/f, and O/o representing [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings). Note that it represents the sound of IPA [x] (like German machen, ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA [h].

See also


Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [et͡ʃ], [het͡ʃ]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [h]

Letter

H

  1. The eighth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

See also


Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The tenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xa/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Polish alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

See also

Further reading

  • H in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • H in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. (International Standard) The tenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The eleventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called haș, ha, or and written in the Latin script.

See also


Saanich

Pronunciation

Letter

H

  1. The tenth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /x/, /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Slovene

Alternative forms

See usage notes.

Etymology

From Gaj's Latin alphabet H, from Czech alphabet H, from Latin H, from the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, he), from the Ancient Greek letter Η (Ē, eta), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤇 (, het), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗. Pronunciation as /xə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German H.

Pronunciation

  • Phoneme
  • Letter name

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The ninth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The fourteenth letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  3. The tenth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was written by two different letters whether it was pronounced as velar /x/ or glottal /h/, a distinction irrelevant to nowadays standard and the distinction was also not used by all writers. Phoneme /h/ was written with 〈H〉, while /x/ was written with a yet to be encoded character .

Noun

H m inan or f

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H / h.

Inflection

  • Overall more common
First masculine declension (soft o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, -j- infix
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. H-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
H H-ja H-ji
genitive
rodȋlnik
H-ja H-jev H-jev
dative
dajȃlnik
H-ju, H-ji H-jema H-jem
accusative
tožȋlnik
H H-ja H-je
locative
mẹ̑stnik
H-ju, H-ji H-jih H-jih
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
H-jem H-jema H-ji
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
H H-ja H-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Third masculine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. H
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
H H H
genitive
rodȋlnik
H H H
dative
dajȃlnik
H H H
accusative
tožȋlnik
H H H
locative
mẹ̑stnik
H H H
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
H H H
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
H H H
  • Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , -j- infix
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. H-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
H H-ja H-ji
genitive
rodȋlnik
H-ja H-jov H-jov
dative
dajȃlnik
H-ju, H-ji H-joma H-jom
accusative
tožȋlnik
H H-ja H-je
locative
mẹ̑stnik
H-ju, H-ji H-jih H-jih
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
H-jom H-joma H-ji
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
H H-ja H-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Third feminine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. H
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
H H H
genitive
rodȋlnik
H H H
dative
dajȃlnik
H H H
accusative
tožȋlnik
H H H
locative
mẹ̑stnik
H H H
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
H H H
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
H H H

See also

Further reading

  • H”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /hæ/

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by W and followed by Y.

See also


Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived terms

See also


Turkish

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/, [ç]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The tenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called he and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • The pronunciation /ˈhaʃ/ is usually preferred in sciences like geometry or physics to avoid confusion with E.

See also


Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hat̚˧˦], [haːt̚˧˦], [həː˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [hak̚˦˧˥], [haːk̚˦˧˥], [həː˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [hak̚˦˥], [haːk̚˦˥], [həː˨˩]
  • Phonetic: hắt, hát, hờ

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called hắt, hát, or hờ and written in the Latin script.

See also


Welsh

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called aitsh and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by Ng and followed by I.

Mutation

  • H cannot be mutated in Welsh.

See also

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), H”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /hí/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The ninth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

See also


Zulu

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

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