H

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

H	U+0048, H LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

← G
[U+0047]

Basic Latin

I →
[U+0049]

Ｈ	U+FF28, Ｈ FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

← Ｇ
[U+FF27]

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Ｉ →
[U+FF29]

Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, “he”), from the Ancient Greek letter Η (Ē, “eta”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤇 (ḥ, “het”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗.

Letter

H (lower case h)

The eighth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

H

(chemistry) Symbol for hydrogen.
(physics) Symbol for a henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
(mechanics) Symbol for a generic Hamiltonian.
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
(mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group
(linguistics) high tone
(linguistics) A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
synonyms: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
(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.

Gallery

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

English

Etymology 1

From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eɪtʃ/
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Audio (UK): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Letter

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H (upper case, lower case h, plural Hs or H's)

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

H-shackle

Noun

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

(baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
(slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
- 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
(journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
(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.
(India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Initialism of Hindu.

Usage notes

Sense 5 is mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.

Coordinate terms

(Indian politics, online slang): M (used by Indian Hindu netizens directed towards Muslims, especially Muslim activists and extremists)

Meronyms

(a half-year): Q (½ H)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

(British) Abbreviation of hard in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
(linguistics) Abbreviation of high |in reference to a dialect's social status.
An H variety usually enjoys official approval and cultural prestige.
(philately) Abbreviation of hinged.

Meronyms

(pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

Number

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H (upper case, lower case h)

The ordinal number [[eighth]], derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)

Adverb

H (not comparable)

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

Etymology 3

From Japanese エッチ (“the Latin letter H”), from English H as an abbreviation of 変態 (hentai, “perverted; pervert; perverted art”).

Noun

H (uncountable)

Hentai.

Afar

Letter

H

The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Noun

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

H

Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Southern) /at͡ʃe/, [a.t͡ʃe̞]
IPA^(key): (Northern) /hat͡ʃe/, [ɦa.t͡ʃe̞]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the Basque alphabet, called hatxe and written in the Latin script.

Chinese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese H (etchi), initialism of 変態 (hentai, “sexual perversion”). Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of Mandarin 黃／黄 (huáng) or Cantonese 鹹／咸 (haam4).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

H

(neologism, slang) dirty; lewd; perverted
(neologism, slang, attributive) sexual; pornographic

Verb

H

(neologism, slang) to have sex
- 一般而言，能明確認同自己身份的網友大多是非常難以接受傳統的戀愛方式，如「極度討厭跟直男的戀愛方式」；有的則是不能接受傳統的性交方式，如「我不能跟男人正常H，我會想吐，不對，是我會吐。」 [MSC, trad.]
  一般而言，能明确认同自己身份的网友大多是非常难以接受传统的恋爱方式，如「极度讨厌跟直男的恋爱方式」；有的则是不能接受传统的性交方式，如「我不能跟男人正常H，我会想吐，不对，是我会吐。」 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2012 May 1, 陈亚亚 (Chen Yaya), 《从“女攻男受”到“第四爱”——试论青少年的性/别多元与平等之实践进程》, in 《性别多元：理论与实务研究（上）》, page 6-7
  Yībān'éryán, néng míngquè rèntóng zìjǐ shēnfèn de wǎngyǒu dàduō shì fēicháng nányǐ jiēshòu chuántǒng de liàn'ài fāngshì, rú “jídù tǎoyàn gēn zhínán de liàn'ài fāngshì”; yǒude zé shì bùnéng jiēshòu chuántǒng de xìngjiāo fāngshì, rú “wǒ bùnéng gēn nánrén zhèngcháng H, wǒ huì xiǎng tù, bùduì, shì wǒ huì tù.” [Pinyin]
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Noun

H

(neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Letter

H

The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/

Noun

H n

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɦaː/
Audio: (file)

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ho/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
Audio: (file)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called haa or hašš and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/ (mostly)
IPA^(key): /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː] (name of letter)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Noun

H

(music) B

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aʃ/
^help

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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/
- Audio: (file)
- Rhymes: -aː

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes

Spelling rules for silent h

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

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

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

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).
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).
Lengthening h (in the strict sense) may be written between long a, 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).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/
- Audio: (file)
- Rhymes: -aː

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

(music) B

Declension

Declension of H [sg-only, neuter, strong]

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

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈx]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈhaː]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called há 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

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

H

Hungary (on license plates)

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ha/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈak.ka/
Rhymes: -akka
(phonemic realization is silent)

Letter

H f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case h)

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

Japanese

Adjective

H(エッチ) or H(えっち) • (etchi) -na (adnominal H(エッチ)な (etchi na), adverbial H(エッチ)に (etchi ni))

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual”)

Noun

H(エッチ) or H(えっち) • (etchi)

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “sexual intercourse”)

Verb

H(エッチ)する or H(えっち)する • (etchi suru) suru (stem H(エッチ)し (etchi shi), past H(エッチ)した (etchi shita))

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “to fuck; to have sex with”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "Hする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

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

Kalo Finnish Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/, /ɦ/^[1]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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]

References

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Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia ^lv

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^(key): [x]

Audio:

(file)

Letter

H

H (upper case, lower case h)

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].

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

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Letter

H

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

Norwegian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xa/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Portuguese

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

(International Standard) The tenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The eleventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H

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

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /x/, /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

H

Wikipedia ^sl

Pronunciation

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

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

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /hæ/

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by W and followed by Y.

Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived terms

bomba H

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hat̚˧˦], [haːt̚˧˦], [həː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [hak̚˦˧˥], [haːk̚˦˧˥], [həː˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [hak̚˦˥], [haːk̚˦˥], [həː˨˩]
Phonetic spelling: hắt, hát, hờ

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eleventh letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called hắt, hát, or hờ and written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Pronunciation

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Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /hí/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Zulu

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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