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H

See also: Variations of "h" and ㅐ

H - Translingual

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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
  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.
  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

H - English

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

  1. (baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
  2. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
    • Synonyms: see heroin
  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.

Adverb

H (not comparable)

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

Adjective

H (comparative more H, superlative most H)

  1. Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.

Usage notes

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

Alternative forms

H - Afar

Letter

H

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

H - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Noun

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

  1. H

H - Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

H - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (Southern) /at͡ʃe/, [a.t͡ʃe̞]
  • IPA: (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.

H - Central Franconian

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

  • 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:
    • where it serves to indicate a hiatus: blohe [ˈblɔːə];
    • where the German cognate has h as well: fähle (German fehlen);
    • where the German cognate has ch or g: mäht (German macht).
  • Silent h is not used in the Dutch-based spelling.

H - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): éichi
    • (Zhuyin): ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ik1 cyu4
  • Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): êh8 cu7
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 4eq 2qr

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

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): áichi, áiche, éichi
    • (Zhuyin): ㄞˊ ˙ㄔ, ㄞˊ ˙ㄔㄜ, ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ik1 cyu4
  • Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): êh8 cu7
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 4eq 2qr

Letter

H

  1. The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

  • Mandarin

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).

H - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /haː/

Noun

H n

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

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

H - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɦaː/

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

H - Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - 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.

H - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/ (mostly)
  • IPA: /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.

Noun

H

  1. (music) B

H - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aʃ/ help

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - German

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /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).

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes

For the use of silent h in German orthography one may note three general rules:

  1. It occurs only after long monophthongs and the diphthong ei.
  2. It occurs after simple i only in the pronominal stems ihm, ihn-, ihr-, and in Schlemihl.
  3. It is mostly restricted to native Germanic words; instances in loanwords are exceptional.

Expanding on this, one can distinguish three types of silent h:

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B

Declension

singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein das H
genitive eines des H
dative einem dem H
accusative ein das H

H - Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
Possessive forms of H

Noun

H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

H - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

H - Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Italian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: /ˈak.ka/
  • (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 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.

H - Japanese

Adjective

H(エッチ) • (etchi) -na (adnominal H(エッチ)な (etchi na), adverbial H(エッチ)に (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)し (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

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") Hし エッチし etchi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") Hし エッチし etchi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") Hする エッチする etchi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") Hする エッチする etchi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") Hすれ エッチすれ etchi sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 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

Noun

H(は) • (ha) 

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

H - Kalo Finnish Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/, /ɦ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes

Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.

H - Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [x]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Malay

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H

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

H - Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

H - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /xa/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Portuguese

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

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.

H - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

H

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

H - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /x/, /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

H - Slovene

Alternative forms

See usage notes.

Pronunciation

  • Phoneme

• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ] • (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: /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: [ˈxə̂], [ˈxâː], [ˈxǎː], SNPT: [hə̏], [hā] • (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: [ˈxə], [ˈxaː], SNPT: [hə̀], [hā],

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) • Hyphenation: H • Homophones: h, ha (tonal and non-tonal)

• Alpine Slavic (1000–1200 AD): *hə̀     • Carinthian dialect plane: *hə̏     • Veneitian–Karst dialect plane: *hə̏     • Soča–Idrija dialect plane: *hə̏     • Upper Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏     • Lower Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏     • Southern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏     • Northern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏     • Pannonian dialect plane: *hə̏

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
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Third masculine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. 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
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Third feminine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. H
gen. sing. H

H - Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/
  • (letter name): IPA: /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.

H - Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived terms

H - Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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.

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

  • 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.

H - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/
  • (phoneme) IPA: /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.

H - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

H - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales, standard) IPA: /aːɨ̯tʃ/
    • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /haːɨ̯tʃ/, /hə/
  • (South Wales, standard) IPA: /ai̯tʃ/
    • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA: /hai̯tʃ/, /hə/

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.

H - Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

H - Zulu

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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