H

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
Codepoint	U+0048
G ← Basic Latin → I

See also Appendix:Variations of "h", and ㅐ

Translingual

Wikipedia

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter H):  Ĥĥ  Ȟȟ  Ḧḧ  Ḣḣ  Ḩḩ  Ḥḥ  Ḫḫ  H̱ẖ  Ħħ  Ⱨⱨ  ɦ  ʰ  ʜ  Ｈｈ

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. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine

See also

Other representations of H:

NATO phonetic: Hotel Morse code: ···· Braille: ⠓ ASL Manual: H

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

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

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  Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /eɪtʃ/, SAMPA: /eItS/

• Audio (UK)

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Letter

H uppercase (lowercase h)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

H (uncountable)

1. (slang) A street term for heroin.
2. (baseball) Hits, the number of hits by a given batter in a given season.
3. (UK) A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade HB but darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
4. Hentai.

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe H)

1. The letter H

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Azeri

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA: /haː/

Noun

H n.

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɦa/

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: G
• Next letter: I

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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.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz ^[edit]

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /haː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /ˈakka/, SAMPA: /"akka/
• (phoneme) IPA: ∅ (silent)

Letter

H f. inv. (lower case h)

1. The eighth letter of the Italian alphabet, called acca and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, (Jj), (Kk), Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, (Ww), (Xx), (Yy), Zz ^[edit]
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ha/, /haʃ/

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

1. The tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /h/. Preceded by G and followed by I.

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Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

1. The 9th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by G and followed by I.

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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.

See also

• (Latin script letters) '', Bb, Tt, Jj, Xx, KHkh, Dd, Rr, Ss, SHsh, DHdh, Cc, Gg, Ff, Qq, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ww, Hh, Yy, Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu ^[edit]

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Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

1. The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]