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LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
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Basic Latin I
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FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
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TranslingualEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

LetterEdit

H (lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

SymbolEdit

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 notesEdit

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

GalleryEdit

See alsoEdit

Other representations of H:

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

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.
    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, →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.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

NounEdit

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 notesEdit

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

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

AdjectiveEdit

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

NumberEdit

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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 nounEdit

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 2Edit

Calque of Arabic هـ(h-)

AdverbEdit

H (not comparable)

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

Etymology 3Edit

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.).

AdjectiveEdit

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, Usenet[2], 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 notesEdit

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

Alternative formsEdit

AfarEdit

LetterEdit

H

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

See alsoEdit

AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦɑː/

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. H

AzerbaijaniEdit

LetterEdit

H upper case (lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

Central FranconianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • /h/ (or silent, see below)

LetterEdit

H

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

Usage notesEdit

ChineseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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).

PronunciationEdit


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

AdjectiveEdit

H

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

VerbEdit

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

NounEdit

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Etymology 2Edit

Pronunciation 1Edit


Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

LetterEdit

H

  1. The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2Edit


LetterEdit

H

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

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

H n

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

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See alsoEdit

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

EstonianEdit

 
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LetterEdit

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 alsoEdit

FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

H

  1. (music) B

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

GermanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • (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/

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.
Usage notesEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B
DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

  • B (“B-flat”)

HungarianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Etymology 2Edit

Abbreviation of Hungary.

NounEdit

H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

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 notesEdit

  • 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.

See alsoEdit

JapaneseEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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)

NounEdit

H(エッチ) (etchi

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

VerbEdit

H(エッチ)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)

ConjugationEdit

Kalo Finnish RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2

LatvianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

(file)

LetterEdit

 
H

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notesEdit

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 alsoEdit

MalayEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

H

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

See alsoEdit

NorwegianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

See alsoEdit

NupeEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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 alsoEdit

SaanichEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H

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

See alsoEdit

Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

SloveneEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

See usage notes.

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • Phoneme
  • Letter name

LetterEdit

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 notesEdit

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  .

NounEdit

H m inan or f

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

InflectionEdit

  • 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 alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

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

SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H upper case (lower case h)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

TurkishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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 alsoEdit

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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.

MutationEdit

  • H cannot be mutated in Welsh.

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • 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

YorubaEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit

ZuluEdit

LetterEdit

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See alsoEdit