h

See also Appendix:Variations of "h"

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER H
Codepoint	U+0068
g ← Basic Latin → i

Translingual

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑː/, /h/

Letter

h lower case (upper 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
• Ƕ (hwair)
• ɧ (heng with hook)

Pronunciation

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Symbol

Wikipedia

h

1. (IPA) voiceless glottal fricative.
2. Planck's constant

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

• (letter name): IPA: /eɪtʃ/, /heɪtʃ/ (the latter in Hiberno-English), X-SAMPA: /eItS/

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Audio (UK)

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• (phoneme): IPA: /h/, silent

Letter

h lowercase (uppercase 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

Number

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 2

Initialism

h

1. (sciences) abbreviation for hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
2. (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of hits by a player
3. (slang) heroin
4. (computing) hexadecimal (following a number)
   • 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

• Η (Greek eta)
• Н (Cyrillic en)

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Azeri

Letter

h lower case (upper 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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aː
• (letter name): IPA: /ɦa/

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet, 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

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

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Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

1. The tenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ho or ha 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

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ˈhaː/

Conjunction

h

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

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Аа, Áá, Bb, Cc, Cscs, Dd, Dzdz, Dzsdzs, Ee, Éé, Ff, Gg, Gygy, Hh, Ii, Íí, Jj, Kk, Ll, Lyly, Mm, Nn, Nyny, Oo, Óó, Öö, Őő, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Szsz, Tt, Tyty, Uu, Úú, Üü, Űű, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Zszs

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Italian

Noun

h m and f (invariable)

1. See under H

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

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Latvian

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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

• IPA: [x]

Letter

H

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].

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

h

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) 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

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

• The 8th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

• When written before j, the h becomes silent.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Ăă, Ââ, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Îî, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Ţţ, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) H

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /x/

Letter

h (Cyrillic spelling х)

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

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Spanish

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

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

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Turkish

Letter

h lower case (upper 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