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h

See also: Appendix:Variations of "h"
Letter h.svg
h U+0068, h
LATIN SMALL LETTER H
← g
[U+0067] 		Basic Latin i →
[U+0069]
ｈ U+FF48, ｈ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER H
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[U+FF47] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｉ →
[U+FF49]

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TranslingualEdit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
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h (upper case H)

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

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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA
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SymbolEdit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
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h

  1. (IPA) voiceless glottal fricative.
  2. symbol of the hour
  3. Planck's constant

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  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

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Other representations of H:

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

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

  1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
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NumberEdit

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Etymology 2Edit

Abbreviations

NounEdit

h

  1. (sciences) Abbreviation of hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
    • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:
      Another instance: 2h28m p. m., 10 micra; 3h08m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3h09m p. m., 4 micra.
  2. (baseball, in statistics) Abbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player
  3. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
  4. (computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)
    • 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
      If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
    • 1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book (page 47)
      The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.
Homographs

AzerbaijaniEdit

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h lower case (upper case H)

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

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DutchEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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EsperantoEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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FaroeseEdit

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h (upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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FinnishEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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FulaEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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GermanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/ (but silent in the syllable coda, before /ə/ and before suffixes)
  • (name) IPA(key): /haː/

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h

  1. the letter h

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

InitialismEdit

h

  1. (common, not restricted to scientific usage) hour
    15:30 h (read out as: fünfzehn Uhr dreißig, or: halb vier)
    3:30 p.m.

GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

h

  1. Romanization of 𐌷

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈhaː]

ConjunctionEdit

h

  1. (text messaging, informal) abbreviation of conjunction hogy (“that”)

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h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /h/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /he/

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h (upper case H)

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

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

h m or f (invariable)

  1. See under H

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LatvianEdit

 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

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.

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H

h (upper case F, lower case f)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called hā 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].

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LivonianEdit

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h (upper case H)

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

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MalayEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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MalteseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /-/, /ː/, /j/, /w/, /ħ/

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h (upper case H)

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

Usage notesEdit

  • In contemporary Maltese, h remains a true consonant [ħ] only in word-final position (ikrah [ˈɪkraħ]), before the negative ending -x (jarawhx [jaˈrawħʃ]), and in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, -hh-, which all become [ħħ]. Otherwise it is silent or leaves at most a vocalic trace:
    • Following and preceding a, e, o are lengthened if stressed: hemm [ɛːmm], fehmet [ˈfɛːmɛt]. Other vowels are not affected.
    • In intervocalic position it is a glide, [j] after i, ie, and [w] after u: jibniha [jɪbˈniːja], inħobbuhom [ɪnħɔbˈbuːwɔm]. The sequence -aho- becomes [ɔː]: rahom [rɔːm].
  • Phonotactically, word-initial h now generally behaves like a vowel, allowing contractions such as m’hemmx [mɛːmʃ]. However, word-internal h still behaves like a (virtual) consonant. Compare for example qablu [ˈʔablʊ] with qabilha [ʔaˈbɪla], which latter is formed as though the l were followed by a consonant.

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NorwegianEdit

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h

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

Usage notesEdit

  • When written before j, the h becomes silent.

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

h

  1. Abbreviation of hora.
    1. Used to indicate time in relation to a 24-hour clock.
      O evento é hoje, às 20h - The event is today at 8 p.m.
      09h30 - 09:30 a.m.
    2. Used to indicate any sequence of time in hours.
      O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s - The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

Usage notesEdit

  • This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 0 and 23 to indicate the day's hours).
  • The abbreviation can be followed by a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour. This can be optionally represented by another abbreviation: min.
    • Example: 15h30 or 15h30min, the first being much more common
  • min can be further followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
    • Example: 20h43min08s

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • (uppercase) H

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h (Cyrillic spelling х)

  1. The 12th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by g and followed by i.

Skolt SamiEdit

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h (upper case H)

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

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name):

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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TurkishEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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TurkmenEdit

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h (upper case H)

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

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ZuluEdit

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h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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