H

See also: Appendix:Variations of "h" and ㅐ

H	U+0048, H LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

← G
[U+0047]

Basic Latin

I →
[U+0049]

Ｈ	U+FF28, Ｈ FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H

← Ｇ
[U+FF27]

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Ｉ →
[U+FF29]

Translingual

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)

The eighth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

H

(chemistry) Symbol for hydrogen.
(physics) Symbol for a henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
(mechanics) Symbol for a generic Hamiltonian.
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
(mathematics) Homology group or cohomology group
(linguistics) high tone
(linguistics) A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
synonyms: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals
(clothing) Bra cup size.

Usage notes

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

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eɪtʃ/
(non-standard except Ireland) IPA^(key): /heɪtʃ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Letter

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

The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  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

H-shackle

Noun

H (usually uncountable, plural Hs)

(baseball) Abbreviation of hits.
(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 (lyrics and music), “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
(journalism) Abbreviation of half-year.
We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
(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.
(India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Initialism of Hindu.

Usage notes

Sense 5 is mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.

Meronyms

(a half-year): Q (½ H)

Coordinate terms

(Indian politics, online slang): M (used by Indian Hindu netizens directed towards Muslims, especially Muslim activists and extremists)

Adjective

H (not comparable)

(Britain) Abbreviation of hard in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
(linguistics) Abbreviation of high |in reference to a dialect's social status.
An H variety usually enjoys official approval and cultural prestige.
(philately) Abbreviation of hinged.

Meronyms

(pencil grade): 2H (ligher than H), HB (harder than H)

Number

H (upper case, lower case h)

The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

Proper noun

H

(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)

(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)

Hentai.

Afar

Letter

H

The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Noun

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

H

Azerbaijani

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

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

Basque

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Central Franconian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

/h/ (or silent, see below)

Letter

H

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

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): éichi
(Zhuyin): ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ik¹ cyu⁴
Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): êh⁸ cu⁷
Wu (Wiktionary): eq (T4) + qr (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: éichi
  - Zhuyin: ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: éichi̊h
  - Wade–Giles: ei²-chʻih⁵
  - Yale: éi-chr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eir.chy
  - Palladius: эйчи (ejči)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀeɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ik¹ cyu⁴
  - Yale: īk chyùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ik⁷ tsy⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ig¹ qu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɪk̚⁵ t͡ʃʰyː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: êh⁸ cu⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: e̍h tshū
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /eʔ⁴⁻² t͡sʰu¹¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: eq (T4) + qr (T2)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /əʔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰz̩³⁴/

Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

Adjective

H

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

Verb

H

(neologism, slang) to have sex
- 一般而言，能明確認同自己身份的網友大多是非常難以接受傳統的戀愛方式，如「極度討厭跟直男的戀愛方式」；有的則是不能接受傳統的性交方式，如「我不能跟男人正常H，我會想吐，不對，是我會吐。」 [MSC, trad.]
  一般而言，能明确认同自己身份的网友大多是非常难以接受传统的恋爱方式，如“极度讨厌跟直男的恋爱方式”；有的则是不能接受传统的性交方式，如“我不能跟男人正常H，我会想吐，不对，是我会吐。” [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2012 May 1, 陈亚亚 (Chen Yaya), 《从“女攻男受”到“第四爱”——试论青少年的性/别多元与平等之实践进程》, in 《性别多元：理论与实务研究（上）》, page 6-7
  Yībān'éryán, néng míngquè rèntóng zìjǐ shēnfèn de wǎngyǒu dàduō shì fēicháng nányǐ jiēshòu chuántǒng de liàn'ài fāngshì, rú “jídù tǎoyàn gēn zhínán de liàn'ài fāngshì”; yǒude zé shì bùnéng jiēshòu chuántǒng de xìngjiāo fāngshì, rú “wǒ bùnéng gēn nánrén zhèngcháng H, wǒ huì xiǎng tù, bùduì, shì wǒ huì tù.” [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)

Noun

H

(neologism, slang) sexual intercourse

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): áichi, áiche, éichi
(Zhuyin): ㄞˊ ˙ㄔ, ㄞˊ ˙ㄔㄜ, ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ik¹ cyu⁴
Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): êh⁸ cu⁷
Wu (Wiktionary): eq (T4) + qr (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: áichi
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˊ ˙ㄔ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: áichi̊h
  - Wade–Giles: ai²-chʻih⁵
  - Yale: ái-chr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: air.chy
  - Palladius: айчи (ajči)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: áiche
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˊ ˙ㄔㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: áiche̊
  - Wade–Giles: ai²-chʻê⁵
  - Yale: ái-che
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: air.che
  - Palladius: айчэ (ajčɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰə³/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: éichi
  - Zhuyin: ㄟˊ ˙ㄔ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: éichi̊h
  - Wade–Giles: ei²-chʻih⁵
  - Yale: éi-chr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eir.chy
  - Palladius: эйчи (ejči)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀeɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ik¹ cyu⁴
  - Yale: īk chyùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ik⁷ tsy⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ig¹ qu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɪk̚⁵ t͡ʃʰyː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: êh⁸ cu⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: e̍h tshū
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /eʔ⁴⁻² t͡sʰu¹¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: eq (T4) + qr (T2)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /əʔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰz̩³⁴/

Note: Often realised as 4eq&3qr.

Letter

H

The seventh letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hē, hā (he¹, ha¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜ, ㄏㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, common)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hē
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: he
  - Wade–Giles: ho¹
  - Yale: hē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: he
  - Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, official)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hā
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ha
  - Wade–Giles: ha¹
  - Yale: hā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ha
  - Palladius: ха (xa)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xä⁵⁵/

Letter

H

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).

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/

Noun

H n

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɦaː/
Audio (file)

Letter

H (capital, lowercase h)

The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ho/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
Audio (file)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Estonian

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/ (mostly)

IPA^(key): /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː] (name of letter)

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Noun

H

(music) B

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aʃ/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

German

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /h/
- The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before /ə/, and before suffixes. In common 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/
- Audio (file)
- Rhymes: -aː

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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:

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

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

Etymological h is written in words where Middle High German had a consonant that has become silent; this was usually h, occasionally g or w. Etymological h is missing only in a few words (e.g. rau, Ton, Träne).
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).
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).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/
- Audio (file)
- Rhymes: -aː

Noun

H n (strong, genitive H, no plural)

(music) B

Declension

Declension of H [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	H
genitive	eines	des	H
dative	einem	dem	H
accusative	ein	das	H

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called há and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	H	H-k
accusative	H-t	H-kat
dative	H-nak	H-knak
instrumental	H-val	H-kkal
causal-final	H-ért	H-kért
translative	H-vá	H-kká
terminative	H-ig	H-kig
essive-formal	H-ként	H-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	H-ban	H-kban
superessive	H-n	H-kon
adessive	H-nál	H-knál
illative	H-ba	H-kba
sublative	H-ra	H-kra
allative	H-hoz	H-khoz
elative	H-ból	H-kból
delative	H-ról	H-król
ablative	H-tól	H-któl
non-attributive possessive - singular	H-é	H-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	H-éi	H-kéi

Possessive forms of H
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	H-m	H-im
2nd person sing.	H-d	H-id
3rd person sing.	H-ja	H-i
1st person plural	H-nk	H-ink
2nd person plural	H-tok	H-itok
3rd person plural	H-juk	H-ik

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

H

Hungary (on license plates)

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ha/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

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#Italian|ho, hai, ha, hanno]] to distinguish from [[o, ai, a, anno#Italian|o, ai, a, anno]]. Otherwise it may occur in unadapted borrowings from modern languages. It is not used in loanwords from the classical languages.

Japanese

Adjective

H(エッチ) • (etchi) -na (adnominal H(エッチ)な (etchi na), adverbial H(エッチ)に (etchi ni))

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual”)

Noun

H(エッチ) • (etchi)

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “sexual intercourse”)

Verb

H(エッチ)する • (etchi suru) suru (stem H(エッチ)し (etchi shi), past H(エッチ)した (etchi shita))

Alternative form of エッチ (etchi, “to fuck; to have sex with”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "Hする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	Hし	エッチし	etchi shi
Continuative (連用形)	Hし	エッチし	etchi shi
Terminal (終止形)	Hする	エッチする	etchi suru
Attributive (連体形)	Hする	エッチする	etchi suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	Hすれ	エッチすれ	etchi sure
Imperative (命令形)	Hせよ¹ Hしろ²	エッチせよ¹ エッチしろ²	etchi seyo¹ etchi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	Hされる	エッチされる	etchi sareru
Causative	Hさせる Hさす	エッチさせるエッチさす	etchi saseru etchi sasu
Potential	Hできる	エッチできる	etchi dekiru
Volitional	Hしよう	エッチしよう	etchi shiyō
Negative	Hしない	エッチしない	etchi shinai
Negative continuative	Hせず	エッチせず	etchi sezu
Formal	Hします	エッチします	etchi shimasu
Perfective	Hした	エッチした	etchi shita
Conjunctive	Hして	エッチして	etchi shite
Hypothetical conditional	Hすれば	エッチすれば	etchi sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Kalo Finnish Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/, /ɦ/[1]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the Kalo Finnish Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.[1]

Usage notes

Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.[1]

References

Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Aakkoset [Alphabet]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎ (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2

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

IPA^(key): [x]

(file)

Letter

H

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Letter

H

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

Norwegian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hoː/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xa/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The eleventh letter of the Polish alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

(International Standard) The tenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The eleventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called haș, ha, or hî and written in the Latin script.

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

H

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

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /x/, /h/

Letter

H (lower case h)

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

Slovene

Alternative forms

See usage notes.

Etymology

From Gaj's Latin alphabet H, from Czech alphabet H, from Latin H, 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. Pronunciation as /xə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German H.

Pronunciation

Phoneme

Pronunciation of H

• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA^(key): /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ]
• (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA^(key): /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

Letter name

Pronunciation of H [hə̀, há] (ə̏, ā)

• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA^(key): [ˈxə̂], [ˈxâː], [ˈxǎː], SNPT: [hə̏], [hā]
• (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA^(key): [ˈxə], [ˈxaː], SNPT: [hə̀], [hā],

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Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

Miscellaneous

• Rhymes: -ə, -aː ([ə̀], [á]) (non-tonal)
• Hyphenation: H
• Homophones: h, ha (tonal and non-tonal)

• Alpine Slavic (1000–1200 AD): *hə̀
• Carinthian dialect plane: *hə̏
• Veneitian–Karst dialect plane: *hə̏
• Soča–Idrija dialect plane: *hə̏
• Upper Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏
• Lower Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏
• Southern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏
• Northern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏
• Pannonian dialect plane: *hə̏

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The ninth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The fourteenth letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The tenth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was written by two different letters whether it was pronounced as velar /x/ or glottal /h/, a distinction irrelevant to nowadays standard and the distinction was also not used by all writers. Phoneme /h/ was written with 〈H〉, while /x/ was written with a yet to be encoded character .

Noun

H m inan or f

The name of the Latin script letter H / h.

Inflection

Overall more common

First masculine declension (soft o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, -j- infix
nom. sing.	H
gen. sing.	H-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	H	H-ja	H-ji
genitive rodȋlnik	H-ja	H-jev	H-jev
dative dajȃlnik	H-ju, H-ji	H-jema	H-jem
accusative tožȋlnik	H	H-ja	H-je
locative mẹ̑stnik	H-ju, H-ji	H-jih	H-jih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	H-jem	H-jema	H-ji
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	H	H-ja	H-ji

More common when with a definite adjective

Third masculine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing.	H
gen. sing.	H
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	H	H	H
genitive rodȋlnik	H	H	H
dative dajȃlnik	H	H	H
accusative tožȋlnik	H	H	H
locative mẹ̑stnik	H	H	H
instrumental orọ̑dnik	H	H	H
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	H	H	H

Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , -j- infix
nom. sing.	H
gen. sing.	H-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	H	H-ja	H-ji
genitive rodȋlnik	H-ja	H-jov	H-jov
dative dajȃlnik	H-ju, H-ji	H-joma	H-jom
accusative tožȋlnik	H	H-ja	H-je
locative mẹ̑stnik	H-ju, H-ji	H-jih	H-jih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	H-jom	H-joma	H-ji
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	H	H-ja	H-ji

More common when with a definite adjective

Third feminine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing.	H
gen. sing.	H
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	H	H	H
genitive rodȋlnik	H	H	H
dative dajȃlnik	H	H	H
accusative tožȋlnik	H	H	H
locative mẹ̑stnik	H	H	H
instrumental orọ̑dnik	H	H	H
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	H	H	H

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /hæ/

Letter

H upper case (lower case h)

The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by W and followed by Y.

Spanish

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Derived terms

bomba H

Turkish

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /h/, [ç]

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The tenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called he and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The pronunciation /ˈhaʃ/ is usually preferred in sciences like geometry or physics to avoid confusion with E.

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)

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

(North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /aːɨ̯tʃ/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /haːɨ̯tʃ/, /hə/
(South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ai̯tʃ/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /hai̯tʃ/, /hə/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The twelfth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called aitsh and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by Ng and followed by I.

Mutation

H cannot be mutated in Welsh.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /hí/

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

The ninth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called hí and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

H (upper case, lower case h)

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