H

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
Basic Latin	U+0048

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Noun 2.4 Abbreviation 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Czech 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 5 Dutch 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 5.3 See also 6 Esperanto 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Letter 6.3 See also 7 Italian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Romanian 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Slovene 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 10 Spanish 10.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

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H upper case (lower case h)

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

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• (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

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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

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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

Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

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[edit] English

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• IPA: /eɪtʃ/, SAMPA: /eItS/

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H (uppercase, lowercase h)

1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by G and followed by I.

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H (uncountable)

1. (slang) A street term for heroin.

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H (plural Hs)

1. (baseball) Hits, the number of hits by a given batter in a given season.
2. (British) 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.

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe H)

1. The letter H

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[edit] Czech

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• IPA: /ha:/

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H n.

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

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɦa/

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H (capital, lowercase h)

1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: G
• Next letter: I

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronunciation

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

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H (upper case, lower case h)

1. The tenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet.

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• Previous letter: Ĝ
• Next letter: Ĥ

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[edit] Italian

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• IPA: /ˈakka/, SAMPA: /"akka/

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H m. and f. inv.

1. The eighth letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ha/, /haʃ/

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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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[edit] Slovene

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H (capital, lowercase h)

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

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

1. The ninth letter of the Spanish alphabet.