HS

See also: hs, Hs, hS, H. S., h's, H's, and ḥs

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Ꟊ, ꟉꟉ, £. An ASCII substitute is HS.

Etymology

From Latin sēstertius (“two-and-a-half”), from sēmis (“half”) + tertius (“third”), in which “third” refers to the third as: the sestertius was worth two full asses and half of a third. The symbol is derived from the Roman numeral II followed by an S for Latin semis, the whole written with a strikethrough IIS (a common substitution being HS).

Symbol

HS

1. sestertius; a substitute for IIS

See also

Currency signs

• ¤ – currency wildcard
• ؋ – afghani
• ฿ – baht
• ₿ – bitcoin
• ¢ – cent
• ₡ – colón
• ₵ – cedi
• – cifrão
• – Emirati dirham
• $ – dollar
• ₫ – dong
• ֏ – dram
• € – euro
• ƒ – florin, guilder, gulden
• ₣ – franc
• ₲ – guarani
• ₴ – hryvnia
• ₭ – kip
• ₾ – lari
• ₺ – Turkish lira
• ₼ – manat
• ₥ – mill
• ₦ – naira
• ₱ – Philippine peso
• £ or ₤ – pound, lira
• ﷼ – Iranian rial
• ⃁ – Saudi riyal
• ៛ – riel
• ₽ – ruble
• ₨ – rupee
• ₹ – Indian rupee
• ₪ – new shekel
• ⃀ – Kyrgyzstani som
• ₸ – tenge
• ₮ – tugrik, tether
• ₩ – won
• ¥ – yen, yuan

Language-specific currency signs

• ৳ – Bengali rupee sign
• ৲ – Bengali taka sign
• ৹ – Bengali ana sign
• ৻ – Bengali ganda sign
• રૂ૰ – Gujarati rupee sign
• ꠸ – North Indic rupee sign
• रू – Nepali rupee sign
• 𞱱 – Pakistani rupee sign
• රු – Sinhala rupee sign
• ௹ – Tamil rupee sign
• 𞲰 – Urdu rupee sign
• 𞋿 (𞋿) – Wancho rupee sign
• ރ – rufiyaa (in Dhiveli)
• 円 – yen (in Japanese)
• 元 – yuan (in Chinese)
• 圓 / 圆 – yuan (in Chinese)

Formerly used currency signs

• 𐆚 – Roman as
• ₳ – austral
• ₠ – European Currency Unit
• ₢ – cruzeiro
• 𐆖 – Roman denarius
• ₯ – drachma
• ₶ – livre tournois
• ℳ – mark
• ₧ – peseta
• ₰ – pfennig
• 𐆘 – Roman sesterce
• ₷ – spesmilo
• – old Israeli shekel

English

Noun

HS

1. Initialism of high school.

   Synonym: H. S.

2. Initialism of health system.
3. (ski jumping) Initialism of hill size.
4. (dermatology) Initialism of hidradenitis suppurativa.
5. Initialism of handstand.

Adverb

HS (not comparable)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of half strength.
2. (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of hora somni (“literally, hour of sleep; at bedtime”). From Latin hora somni

Adjective

HS (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of high speed.

   Coordinate terms: HST, HSF, HSC, HSV

Proper noun

HS

1. (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Homestuck.

Anagrams

• S&H, SH, sh

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːˌæs/, [ˈho̞ːˌæs̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːˌes/, [ˈho̞ːˌe̞s̠] (dated)
• Rhymes: -æs

Proper noun

HS

1. initialism of Helsingin Sanomat (the leading newspaper in Finland)

   Synonym: Hesari

Declension

Inflection of HS (Kotus type 10/koira) singular plural nominative HS HS:t genitive HS:n HS:ien partitive HS:ää HS:iä accusative HS HS:n HS:t inessive HS:ssä HS:issä elative HS:stä HS:istä illative HS:ään HS:iin adessive HS:llä HS:illä ablative HS:ltä HS:iltä allative HS:lle HS:ille essive HS:nä HS:inä translative HS:ksi HS:iksi abessive HS:ttä HS:ittä instructive – HS:in comitative – HS:ineen

French

Adjective

HS (invariable)

1. initialism of hors-service
   • 2017, Bastien Vivès, Une sœur, Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 10:

     Le frigo est HS…

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. initialism of hors sujet (off-topic, irrelevant)

Latin

Etymology

From a shortening of II S where II is 2 in Roman numerals and S stands for sēmis (“half”). This is because a sesterce was worth 2 and a half asses.

Symbol

HS

1. alternative form of 𐆘

References

• “HS”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers