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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ch"

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ch

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From c +‎ h.

Letter

ch (mixed case Ch, upper case CH)

1. A digraph from c and h, considered an individual letter in some languages.

Etymology 2

Initialism of English cosine, hyperbolic.

Symbol

ch

1. Alternative form of cosh (“hyperbolic cosine”)

Etymology 3

Clipping of English and Chamorro Chamorro.

Symbol

ch

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chamorro.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chamorro terms

English

Etymology 1

Noun

ch (countable and uncountable, plural chs)

1. Abbreviation of chain (“a unit of measurement equal to 22 yards”).
2. (crochet) Abbreviation of chain (stitch)
3. Abbreviation of channel, in reference to telephones, audio, radio, and television.

   5.1 ch surround sound

4. Abbreviation of chapter (“main section of a book”).
   • 2007, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, page 143:

     Ch 2 secondarily interrupts the flow between chs 1 and 3 (see 2.1–16n.).

5. Abbreviation of chestnut (“a dark reddish-brown colored horse”).
   • 2014, Kenneth Hinchcliff, Andris Kaneps, Raymond Geor, Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, page 675:

     NAME OF HORSE (COLOR, SEX, YEAR BORN)
     Secretariat (ch.s. 1970)

Verb

ch

1. (crochet) Abbreviation of chain.
   • 2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian‎:

     Ch 4, sl st to 1st sl st to close.

Etymology 2

Apheretic form of ich or utch, ultimately from Old English iċ (“I”). Compare Dutch 'k, an apheretic variant of ik (“I”). More at ich, I.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃ/

Pronoun

ch

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of I.

Anagrams

• h/c, hc, H/C, H.C., HC, H&C

Blin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃʼ/

Letter

ch (uppercase Ch)

1. A letter of the Bilen Latin alphabet.

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃ/

Letter

ch (upper case Ch)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

Chipewyan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͜ʃʰ/

Letter

ch (upper case Ch)

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

Czech

Letter

ch (lower case, upper case CH, mixed case Ch)

1. a digraph, the fourteenth letter of the Czech alphabet, after h and before i

Usage notes

In names or at the beginning of a sentence the mixed case Ch is used (e. g. Chrudim).

Esperanto

Letter

ch

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

See also

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

French

Alternative forms

• ch.

Adjective

ch (invariable)

1. abbreviation of chaque (“each, ea”).

Noun

ch m (invariable)

1. abbreviation of cheval-vapeur (“horsepower, hp”).

Usage notes

Used for all types of (metric) horsepower except tax horsepower, which uses the initialisms cv or CV.

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ᵏǀʰ/

Letter

ch (upper case Ch)

1. A letter of the practical Hadza alphabet.