H

See also: Appendix:Variations of "h" and

H U+0048, H
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
G
[U+0047]
Basic Latin I
[U+0049]
U+FF28, H
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

[U+FF27]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF29]

Translingual

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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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
  4. (mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group

Usage notes

  • (in mathematics) An H with a numerical (or variable) superscript denotes a homology group; with a subscript, it denotes a cohomology group.

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Other representations of H:


English

Etymology 1

From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪtʃ/
  • (non-standard except Ireland) IPA(key): /heɪtʃ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Letter

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

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

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

  1. (baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
  2. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
  3. (journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
    We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
  4. (Britain) 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.
Meronyms
  • (a half-year): Q (½ H)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

  1. (Britain) Abbreviation of hard in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
  2. (linguistics) Abbreviation of high |in reference to a dialect's social status.
    An H variety usually enjoys official approval and cultural prestige.
Meronyms
  • (pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

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

Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)

Adverb

H (not comparable)

  1. (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)

  1. Hentai.

Afar

Letter

H

  1. The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.

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American Sign Language

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe H)

  1. The letter H

Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

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Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese H (etchi), initialism of 変態 (hentai, sexual perversion). Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of Mandarin (huáng) or Cantonese (haam4).

Pronunciation


Adjective

H

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

Verb

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

Noun

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/

Noun

H n

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦaː/
  • (file)

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Noun

H

  1. (music) B

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʃ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the French alphabet, called ache and written in the Latin script.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the German alphabet.

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Noun

H n (genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B

Declension

See also

  • B (B-flat)

Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /ˈakka/
  • (phoneme is silent)

Letter

H f (invariable, lower case h)

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

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Japanese

Adjective

H (katakana エッチ, hiragana えっち, rōmaji etchi)

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual)

Noun

H (katakana エッチ, hiragana えっち, rōmaji etchi)

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, sexual intercourse)

Verb

Hする (katakana エッチする, hiragana えっちする, rōmaji etchi suru)

  1. Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, to fuck; to have sex with)
Conjugation

Latvian

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

(file)

Letter

H

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called 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].

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [et͡ʃ], [het͡ʃ]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [h]

Letter

H

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

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Portuguese

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha/, /haʃ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Saanich

Pronunciation

Letter

H

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

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /x/, /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

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Slovene

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(key): /h/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /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.

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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.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hat̚˧˦], [haːt̚˧˦], [həː˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [hak̚˦˧˥], [haːk̚˦˧˥], [həː˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [hak̚˦˥], [haːk̚˦˥], [həː˨˩]
  • Phonetic: hắt, hát, hờ

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Zulu

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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