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Translingual
Etymology
From the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, “he”), from the Ancient Greek letter Η (Ē, “eta”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤇 (ḥ, “het”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗.
See also
Symbol
H
- (chemistry) Symbol for hydrogen.
- (physics) Symbol for a henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
- (mechanics) Symbol for a generic Hamiltonian.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
- (mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group
- (linguistics) high tone
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
- synonyms: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
- (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.
Gallery
- Letter styles
- Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur
English
Etymology 1
From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η (-).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɪtʃ/
- (non-standard except Ireland) IPA(key): /heɪtʃ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtʃ
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h, plural Hs or H's)
- The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.
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Derived terms
See also
Noun
H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)
- (baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
- (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
- (journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
- We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
- (Britain) A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
- A pencil of grade H.
- (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)
Number
H (upper case, lower case h)
Proper noun
H
- (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.
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Adverb
H (not comparable)
Afar
Letter
H
- The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.
Azerbaijani
Letter
H upper case (lower case h)
Basque
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Central Franconian
Etymology
- /h/ is from West Germanic stem-initial *h.
Pronunciation
- /h/ (or silent, see below)
Letter
H
- A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
- A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
Usage notes
- In the German-based spelling, silent h may be written to indicate a preceding long vowel. Some writers make liberal use of this, but the predominant tendency is to use doubled vowel letters instead and allow h only in the following cases:
- Silent h is not used in the Dutch-based spelling.
Chinese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Japanese H (etchi), initialism of 変態 (hentai, “sexual perversion”). Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of Mandarin 黃/黄 (huáng) or Cantonese 鹹/咸 (haam4).
Pronunciation
Adjective
H
- (neologism, slang) dirty; lewd; perverted
- (neologism, slang, attributive) sexual; pornographic
Verb
H
- (neologism, slang) to have sex
- 一般而言,能明確認同自己身份的網友大多是非常難以接受傳統的戀愛方式,如「極度討厭跟直男的戀愛方式」;有的則是不能接受傳統的性交方式,如「我不能跟男人正常H,我會想吐,不對,是我會吐。」 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2012 May 1, 陈亚亚 (Chen Yaya), 《从“女攻男受”到“第四爱”——试论青少年的性/别多元与平等之实践进程》, in 《性别多元:理论与实务研究(上)》, page 6-7
- Yībān'éryán, néng míngquè rèntóng zìjǐ shēnfèn de wǎngyǒu dàduō shì fēicháng nányǐ jiēshòu chuántǒng de liàn'ài fāngshì, rú “jídù tǎoyàn gēn zhínán de liàn'ài fāngshì”; yǒude zé shì bùnéng jiēshòu chuántǒng de xìngjiāo fāngshì, rú “wǒ bùnéng gēn nánrén zhèngcháng H, wǒ huì xiǎng tù, bùduì, shì wǒ huì tù.” [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
一般而言,能明确认同自己身份的网友大多是非常难以接受传统的恋爱方式,如“极度讨厌跟直男的恋爱方式”;有的则是不能接受传统的性交方式,如“我不能跟男人正常H,我会想吐,不对,是我会吐。” [MSC, simp.]
Pronunciation 1
Letter
H
- The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation 2
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).
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦaː/
Audio (file)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ho/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/
Audio (file)
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Estonian
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h/ (mostly)
- IPA(key): /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː] (name of letter)
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʃ/
German
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/
- (name) IPA(key): /haː/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aː
Usage notes
For the use of silent h in German orthography one may note three general rules:
- It occurs only after long monophthongs and the diphthong ei.
- It occurs after simple i only in the pronominal stems ihm, ihn-, ihr-, and in Schlemihl.
- It is mostly restricted to native Germanic words; instances in loanwords are exceptional.
Expanding on this, one can distinguish three types of silent h:
- Etymological h is written in words where Middle High German had a consonant that has become silent; this was usually h, occasionally g or w. Etymological h is missing only in a few words (e.g. rau, Ton, Träne).
- Hiatus-breaking h is written when an inflectable word stem ends in a long monophthong. This, too, is missing only in a few native words (e.g. säen, certain nouns like Knie, See, Schnee).
- Lengthening h (in the strict sense) may be written between long a, ä, e, o, ö, u, ü and following l, m, n, r. Its use is very irregular and it is missing in a great deal of words. At times this is done to distinguish homophones (e.g. malen vs. mahlen), but in general there is no clear system. One can note that lengthening h proper does not occur in stems starting with sch-, sp-, t-. It is overall rare in words starting with more than one consonant, but there are several counterexamples (e.g. Drohne, prahlen, Stuhl).
See also
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haː/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aː
Declension
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈx]
- (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈhaː]
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h/
Indonesian
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
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)
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.
Japanese
Conjugation
Stem forms | ||||
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Imperfective (未然形) | Hし | エッチし | etchi shi | |
Continuative (連用形) | Hし | エッチし | etchi shi | |
Terminal (終止形) | Hする | エッチする | etchi suru | |
Attributive (連体形) | Hする | エッチする | etchi suru | |
Hypothetical (仮定形) | Hすれ | エッチすれ | etchi sure | |
Imperative (命令形) | Hせよ¹ Hしろ² |
エッチせよ¹ エッチしろ² |
etchi seyo¹ etchi shiro² | |
Key constructions | ||||
Passive | Hされる | エッチされる | etchi sareru | |
Causative | Hさせる Hさす |
エッチさせる エッチさす |
etchi saseru etchi sasu | |
Potential | Hできる | エッチできる | etchi dekiru | |
Volitional | Hしよう | エッチしよう | etchi shiyō | |
Negative | Hしない | エッチしない | etchi shinai | |
Negative continuative | Hせず | エッチせず | etchi sezu | |
Formal | Hします | エッチします | etchi shimasu | |
Perfective | Hした | エッチした | etchi shita | |
Conjunctive | Hして | エッチして | etchi shite | |
Hypothetical conditional | Hすれば | エッチすれば | etchi sureba | |
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative |
Kalo Finnish Romani
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Usage notes
Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.[1]
See also
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]
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Malay
Pronunciation
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [et͡ʃ], [het͡ʃ]
- (Phoneme) IPA(key): [h]
Norwegian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hoː/
Portuguese
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Romani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h/
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
See also
- (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, X x, I i, J j, K k, Kh kh, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Ph ph, R r, S s, T t, Th th, U u, V v, Z z International Standard: (À à, Ä ä, Ǎ ǎ), Ć ć, Ćh ćh, (È è, Ë ë, Ě ě), (Ì ì, Ï ï, Ǐ ǐ), (Ò ò, Ö ö, Ǒ ǒ), Rr rr, Ś ś, (Ù ù, Ü ü, Ǔ ǔ), Ź ź, Ʒ ʒ, Q q, Ç ç, ϴ θ. Pan-Vlax: Č č, Čh čh, Dž dž, (Dź dź), Ř ř, Š š, (Ś ś), Ž ž, (Ź ź).
Saanich
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h/
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 (ḥ, “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
• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA(key): /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ] |
Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.
- Letter name
• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA(key): [ˈxə̂], [ˈxâː], [ˈxǎː], SNPT: [hə̏], [hā] • (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA(key): [ˈxə], [ˈxaː], SNPT: [hə̀], [hā],
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Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.
• Rhymes: -ə, -aː ([ə̀], [á]) (non-tonal)
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Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
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 .
Inflection
- Overall more common
First masculine declension (soft o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, -j- infix | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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
Spanish
Derived terms
Turkish
Pronunciation
- (letter name) IPA(key): (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/, [ç]
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Usage notes
- The pronunciation /ˈhaʃ/ is usually preferred in sciences like geometry or physics to avoid confusion with E.
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)
See also
- (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ cái; A a (À à, Ả ả, Ã ã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ), Â â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard) IPA(key): /aːɨ̯tʃ/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /haːɨ̯tʃ/, /hə/
- (South Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ai̯tʃ/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /hai̯tʃ/, /hə/
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
Mutation
- H cannot be mutated in Welsh.
See also
- (Latin-script letters) llythyren; A a (Á á, À à, Â â, Ä ä), B b, C c, Ch ch, D d, Dd dd, E e (É é, È è, Ê ê, Ë ë), F f, Ff ff, G g, Ng ng, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Î î, Ï ï), J j, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ô ô, Ö ö), P p, Ph ph, R r, Rh rh, S s, T t, Th th, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Û û, Ü ü), W w (Ẃ ẃ, Ẁ ẁ, Ŵ ŵ, Ẅ ẅ), Y y (Ý ý, Ỳ ỳ, Ŷ ŷ, Ÿ ÿ)
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
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)
See also
- (Latin-script letters) lẹ́tà; A a (Á á, À à, Ā ā), B b, D d, E e (É é, È è, Ē ē), Ẹ ẹ (Ẹ́ ẹ́, Ẹ̀ ẹ̀, Ẹ̄ ẹ̄), F f, G g, Gb gb, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Ī ī), J j, K k, L l, M m (Ḿ ḿ, M̀ m̀, M̄ m̄), N n (Ń ń, Ǹ ǹ, N̄ n̄), O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ō ō), Ọ ọ (Ọ́ ọ́, Ọ̀ ọ̀, Ọ̄ ọ̄), P p, R r, S s, Ṣ ṣ, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Ū ū), W w, Y y
- As used in Benin: (Latin-script letters) lɛ́tà; A a, B b, D d, E e, Ɛ ɛ, F f, G g, Gb gb, H h, I i, J j, K k, Kp kp, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ɔ ɔ, P p, R r, S s, Sh sh, T t, U u, W w, Y y
Zulu
Letter
H (upper case, lower case h)