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LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
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Basic Latin I

Translingual

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Etymology

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.

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

See also

Symbol

H

  1. (chemistry) hydrogen.
  2. (physics) henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
  3. (mechanics) 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
    Synonym: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
  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.

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English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): 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)

  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.
Derived terms
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Noun

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. (British) 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)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

  1. (British) 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.
  4. (UK, film, historical) Abbreviation of horrific. (former film classification)
Meronyms
  • (pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

Number

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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

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

Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)

Adverb

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

Borrowed from Japanese H (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.).

Adjective

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), 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, , “/tg/ - Traditional Games » Thread #57240679”, in Desuarchive , 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, 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

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

Alternative forms

Afar

Letter

H

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

See also

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

Noun

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

  1. H

Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

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Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Southern) /at͡ʃe/,
  • IPA(key): (Northern) /hat͡ʃe/,

Letter

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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Catalan

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called hac and written in the Latin script.

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Central Franconian

Etymology

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

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

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


Adjective

H

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

Verb

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

Noun

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1


Letter

H

  1. the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2


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).

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

H n

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

Declension

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet

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Elfdalian

Alternative forms

  • , Å (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

H (upper case H, lower case h)

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

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

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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.

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Finnish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Derived terms

compounds

See also

Noun

H

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

French

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (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/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.
Usage notes
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B
Declension

See also

  • B (B-flat)

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

  • (letter name)

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈheː/
  • (phoneme) /h/

Letter

H

  1. The sixth letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Heiltsuk

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

Icelandic

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

See also

Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Irish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Italian

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Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈak.ka/
  • Rhymes: -akka
  • (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.

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

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)

Noun

H(エッチ) or H(えっち) (etchi

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

Verb

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)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of H – see the following entry.
3
tooth
(typography) a unit equal to 1 Q (kyū) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as H; ha is used for spacing, while Q is used for font size
Alternative spelling
(This term, H (H), is an alternative spelling (abbreviation) of the above term.)

Kalo Finnish Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes

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

See also

References

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

Kashubian

Etymology

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.

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

Latin

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the sound /h/

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Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
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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

Letter

H

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Usage notes

The letter H/h (like F/f, and O/o representing , instead of ) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings). Note that it represents the sound of IPA (like German machen, ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA .

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Letter

H

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

See also

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Nupe

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Polish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Letter

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Letter

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

Pronunciation

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.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

Letter

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

Pronunciation

Letter

H

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Letter

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

Etymology

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.

Letter

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

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

See usage notes.

Etymology

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

  • Phoneme
  • Letter name

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 Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
  3. The tenth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), 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
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 also

Further reading

  • H”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Somali

Pronunciation

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.

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Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived terms

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Swedish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The seventh letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed 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

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈʔejt͡ʃ/ (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • IPA(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈʔejts/ (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -ejt͡ʃ (letter name, Filipino alphabet), (no yod coalescence) -ejts (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
    • IPA(key): /ˈha/ (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -a
    • IPA(key): /ˈʔat͡ʃe/ (letter name, Abecedario)
      • IPA(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈʔatse/ (letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes: -at͡ʃe (letter name, Abecedario), (no yod coalescence) -atse (letter name, Abecedario)
    • IPA(key): /h/ (phoneme; silent in Spanish unadapted loanwards)

Letter

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

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

See also

Letter

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

  1. The seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the 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 (the 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.

See also

Further reading

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

Turkish

Pronunciation

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

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.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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.

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Welsh

Pronunciation

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.

See also

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

Pronunciation

Letter

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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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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