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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 edit

 
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Etymology edit

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.

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H (lower case h)

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

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Symbol edit

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 edit

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

Gallery edit

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Other representations of H:

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

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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.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      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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Noun edit

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.
    Coordinate term: Q (quarter)
    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. (in job listings) Abbreviation of handicap.
    EOE M/F/V/Hequal opportunity employer (minority, female, veteran, handicap)
  6. (India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Abbreviation of Hindu; mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.
    Coordinate term: M (Muslim)

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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 edit
  • (pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

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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 edit

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 edit

Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)

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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 edit

Borrowed from Japanese H, alternative form of エッチ (etchi), in turn from English H as an abbreviation of Japanese 変態 (hentai, pervert).

A doublet of ecchi (erotic, lascivious) and hentai (pornographic anime, manga, etc.).

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H (comparative more H, superlative most H)

  1. Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.
    • 1993 August 5, Eric B. Shen, “Help with H manga needed! :-)”, in alt.manga[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2023-03-15:
      I am going to Berkeley, CA and I was wondering if there were any nearby places to go to get good nasty H stuff. And do you have any recommendations?
    • 2018 January 3, [anonymous], “/tg/ - Traditional Games » Thread #57240679”, in Desuarchive [originally posted on 4chan][3], Bibliotheca Anonoma, archived from the original on 2023-03-15, [post #57242424]:
      This artwork predicates a very H SCENE immediately following this capture.
    • 2020 September 29, @GAVINASSS, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 2020-09-29:
      Who needs Yotsubato for easy JP reading material when you have raw untranslated H doujinshi / You can jack off AND feel like you've accomplished something
Usage notes edit

The term is sometimes connected to the noun following it with a hyphen, as in H-manga, for example.

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Afar edit

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H

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

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Afrikaans edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦɑː/

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Noun edit

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

  1. H

Azerbaijani edit

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H upper case (lower case h)

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

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Basque edit

Pronunciation edit

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Central Franconian edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • /h/ (or silent, see below)

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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 edit

Chinese edit

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

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H

  1. (neologism, slang) dirty; lewd; perverted
  2. (neologism, slang, attributive) sexual; pornographic
    H  ―  éichi màn  ―  erotic comic; hentai manga

Verb edit

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

Noun edit

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation 1 edit


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

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H

  1. The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.
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Pronunciation 2 edit


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H

  1. The seventh letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes edit
  • 《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).

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H n

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

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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Elfdalian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • , Å (Dalecarlian runes)

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H (upper case H, lower case h)

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

Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Estonian edit

 
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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Finnish edit

Etymology edit

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and H for information on the development of the glyph itself.

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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H

  1. Alternative letter-case form of h (B (musical note))

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

German edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (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/

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.
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H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B
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  • B (B-flat)

Hungarian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.
Declension edit
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

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Etymology 2 edit

Abbreviation of Hungary.

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H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

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H (lower case h)

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

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Indonesian edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Italian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

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

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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 edit

  • 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 to distinguish from 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 edit

Etymology 1 edit

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H(エッチ) or H(えっち) (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)

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H(エッチ) or H(えっち) (etchi

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

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H(エッチ)する or H(えっち)する (etchi surusuru (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)
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H() (ha

  1. (typography) Abbreviation of (a unit equal to 1 Q (kyū) and 0.25 mm(H is used for spacing, while Q is used for font size)).

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes edit

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

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Aakkoset [Alphabet]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[1] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2

Kashubian edit

Etymology edit

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and H for development of the glyph itself.

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Latvian edit

 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

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.

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(file)

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H

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes edit

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].

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Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Silent in most native words.
  • IPA(key): (in most loanwords and some native words) /h/

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H (lower case h)

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

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Malay edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

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

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H

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

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Norwegian edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Nupe edit

Pronunciation edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Polish edit

Etymology edit

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and H for development of the glyph itself.

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Portuguese edit

 
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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Romani edit

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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.

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Romanian edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Saanich edit

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H

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by g and followed by i. Its traditional name is uath (hawthorn).

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Silesian edit

Etymology edit

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and H for development of the glyph itself.

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Skolt Sami edit

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H (lower case h)

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

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Slovene edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

See usage notes.

Etymology edit

From Gaj's Latin alphabet H, from Czech alphabet H, from Latin Latin H, from Etruscan 𐌇 (h, he), from Ancient Greek Η (Ē, eta), from 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 edit

  • Phoneme
  • Letter name

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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 alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

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  .

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H m inan or f

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

Inflection edit

  • 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

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Further reading edit

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

Somali edit

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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 edit

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

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Spanish edit

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H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

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Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish H. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English H.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character (ha).
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish H.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: H
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ˈʔejt͡ʃ/, [ˈʔɛɪ̯t͡ʃ]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ha/, [hɐ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈʔat͡ʃe/, [ˈʔa.t͡ʃɛ]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/, [h] (silent in Spanish unadapted loanwords)
  • Rhymes: -ejtʃ, -a, -atʃe

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H (upper case, lower case h, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜐ᜔)

  1. The eighth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called eyts and written in the Latin script.

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H (upper case, lower case h, Baybayin spelling )

  1. The seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ha and written in the Latin script.

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H (upper case, lower case h, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. (historical) The ninth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called hache and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent ⟨h⟩ are spoken with /h/ due to the loss of knowledge of the letter being silent.

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Further reading edit

  • H”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish edit

Pronunciation edit

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes edit

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

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Vietnamese edit

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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.

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Welsh edit

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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 edit

  • H cannot be mutated in Welsh.

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Further reading edit

  • 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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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