hh

See also: HH, hH, ḥḥ, and ḫḫ

English

Noun

1. Abbreviation of hands (one hand being four inches).
   • 2007, Lesley Bayley, The Photographic Guide to Schooling Your Horse, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 127:

     For a 15.2hh–16.2hh horse the average stride length is 3.6m (12ft).

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: heh

Noun

 m

1. rush of hot air
   1. blast from a fire
   2. hot or burning breath, particularly of supernatural beings
   3. steam from freshly baked bread
2. (figuratively) heat from the sun
3. (figuratively) fever or hot breath as a symptom of disease

Inflection

Declension of hh (masculine)

singular	hh
dual	hhwj
plural	hhw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hh  

hhj	hꜣhꜣ
	[New Kingdom]
	in papyri

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 501.15–502.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 160

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Esperanto

Letter

hh

1. A digraph used in the h-sistemo to represent ĥ.

See also

• ch, gh, jh, sh
• cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux