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See also: Appendix:Variations of "h", н [U+043D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN], and ㅐ [U+3150 HANGUL LETTER AE]
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Translingual

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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)

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

See also

Symbol

H

  2. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for hydrogen.
  3. (physics) henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
  4. (mechanics) a generic Hamiltonian.
  5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
  6. (mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group
  7. (linguistics) high tone
  8. (linguistics) A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
    Synonym: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
  9. (clothing) Bra cup size.
  10. (programming) Indicates that a number is written in hexadecimal.
    Synonym: 0x
    • 2025 March, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual‎, volume 2A (in English), page 3-257:
      When CPUID executes with EAX set to 07H and the input value of ECX is invalid (see leaf 07H entry in Table 1-17), the processor returns 0 in EAX/EBX/ECX/EDX. In subleaf 0, EAX returns the maximum input value of the highest leaf 7 sub-leaf, and EBX, ECX & EDX contain information of extended feature flags.
  11. The symbol in bases higher than seventeen for the number expressed as 17 in decimal.

Usage notes

  • (in mathematics) An H with a numerical (or variable) superscript denotes a homology group; with a subscript, it denotes a cohomology group.
  • Letter styles
  • Thumb
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
  • Thumb
    Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η (Ē).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /eɪtʃ/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • (non-standard except Ireland) IPA(key): /heɪtʃ/
  • (Indic) IPA(key): /(h)ĕtʃ/, /(h)e(j)tʃ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtʃ, (Indic) -ɛtʃ

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.
    • 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
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Noun

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

  1. (baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
  2. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
    • 1956, Jess Stearn, Sisters of the Night: The Startling Story of Prostitution in New York Today, New York: Julian Messner, Inc., page 59:
      “Anyway, when he came out of Patsy's room, I grabbed him by the arm and said, ‘Gee whiz, doc, haven't you got a couple of pills for me—even demerol?’ ” / Willie broke off to explain. “That's a synthetic. We call them demmies. If you can't buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.”
    • 2006, Hank Williams III, “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
  3. (journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
    Coordinate term: Q (“quarter”)
    We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
  4. (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.
  5. (in job listings) Abbreviation of handicap.
    EOE M/F/V/H ― equal opportunity employer (minority, female, veteran, handicap)
  6. (India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Abbreviation of Hindu; mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.
    Coordinate term: M (“Muslim”)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

  1. (British) 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.
  3. (philately) Abbreviation of hinged.
  4. (UK, film, historical) Abbreviation of horrific, a former film classification.
Meronyms
  • (pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

Number

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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.

Proper noun

H

  1. (religion) A hypothetical source proposed to underlie the Holiness Code and to have influenced various other parts of the Torah.
    • 2015, Jason M. H. Gaines, The Poetic Priestly Source, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 277:
      H is priestly, evincing concern for cultic sacrifices, cultic observances, the behavior of priests, and ethical matters. H is not P, however, as it has unique vocabulary and contradicts several aspects of Priestly theology, such as the status of the Israelites, the importance of "the land," and whether YHWH or the Israelites own the land.

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

Borrowed from Japanese H, alternative form of エッチ (etchi), in turn from English H as an abbreviation of Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).

A doublet of ecchi (“erotic, lascivious”) and hentai (“pornographic anime, manga, etc.”).

Adjective

H (comparative more H, superlative most H)

  1. Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.
    • 1993 August 5, Eric B. Shen, “Help with H manga needed! :-)”, in alt.manga‎ (Usenet), retrieved 15 March 2023:
      I am going to Berkeley, CA and I was wondering if there were any nearby places to go to get good nasty H stuff. And do you have any recommendations?
    • 2018 January 3, [anonymous], “/tg/ - Traditional Games » Thread #57240679”, in Desuarchive [originally posted on 4chan]‎, Bibliotheca Anonoma, archived from the original on 15 March 2023, [post #57242424]:
      This artwork predicates a very H SCENE immediately following this capture.
    • 2020 September 29, @GAVINASSS, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 29 September 2020:
      Who needs Yotsubato for easy JP reading material when you have raw untranslated H doujinshi / You can jack off AND feel like you've accomplished something
Usage notes

The term is sometimes connected to the noun following it with a hyphen, as in H-manga, for example.

Alternative forms
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Afar

Letter

H

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

See also

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

Noun

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

  1. 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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Basque

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The eighth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called hac and written in the Latin script.

See also

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Central Franconian

Etymology

  • /h/ is from West Germanic stem-initial *h.

Pronunciation

  • /h/ (or silent, see below)

Letter

H

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

Use of silent H
  • In the German-based spelling, silent h may be written to indicate a preceding long vowel. Some writers make liberal use of this, but the predominant tendency is to use doubled vowel letters instead and allow h only in the following cases:
    • where it serves to indicate a hiatus: blohe [ˈblɔːə];
    • where the German cognate has h as well: fähle (German fehlen);
    • where the German cognate has ch or g: mäht (German macht).
  • Silent h is not used in the Dutch-based spelling.
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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

Adjective

H

  1. (neologism, slang) dirty; lewd; perverted
  2. (neologism, slang, attributive) sexual; pornographic
    H漫  ―  éichi màn  ―  erotic comic; hentai manga

Verb

H

  1. (neologism, slang) to have sex

Noun

H

  1. (neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

Letter

H

  1. the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

Letter

H

  1. the seventh letter used in Pinyin
Usage notes
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).
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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

H n

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

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

  1. the eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet

See also

Elfdalian

Alternative forms

  • ᚼ, Å (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

H (upper case H, lower case h)

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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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Estonian

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Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

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Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and H for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Derived terms

compounds

See also

Noun

H

  1. alternative letter-case form of h (“B (musical note)”)

French

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/, /ː/, silent
    • The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before /ə/, and before suffixes. In informal 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/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. 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:

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

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

  1. Etymological h is written in words where Middle High German had a consonant that has become silent; this was usually h, sometimes g, j or w. Etymological h is missing only in a few words (e.g. rau, Ton, Träne).
  2. 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).
  3. Lengthening h (in the strict sense) may be written between long a, ä, 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).
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

  1. (music) B
Declension
Declension of H [sg-only, neuter, strong]
More information singular, indef. ...

See also

  • B (“B-flat”)

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

  • (letter name) hē

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H

  1. The sixth letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Heiltsuk

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

  1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called há and written in the Latin script.
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

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Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

H

  1. Hungary (on license plates)

Icelandic

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

See also

Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

See also

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

Irish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

See also

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

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

Usage notes

  • Used in the strings che, chi, ghe, ghi to indicate the stop realisatins /k/, /ɡ/. Also used in the four verb forms ho, hai, ha, hanno to distinguish from o, ai, a, anno. Otherwise it may occur in unadapted borrowings from modern languages. It is not used in loanwords from the classical languages.

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Japanese

Etymology 1

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))

  1. alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual”)

Noun

H(エッチ) or H(えっち) • (etchi) 

  1. 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))

  1. alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “to fuck; to have sex with”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "Hする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
More information Katsuyōkei ("stem forms"), Mizenkei ("imperfective") ...

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of H – see the following entry.
【歯は】3
[noun] tooth
[noun] (typography) a unit equal to 1 Q (kyū) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as H; ha is used for spacing, while Q is used for font size
Alternative spelling
牙
(This term, H (H), is an alternative spelling (abbreviation) of the above term.)

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