CH

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ch"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of Latin Confoederatio Helvetica (“Swiss confederation”)

Symbol

CH

  1. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Switzerland.

English

Initialism

CH

  1. Companion of Honour, a British honour and postnomial abbreviation.
  2. heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship
  3. (Canada) the hockey club, the Montreal Canadiens
  4. (US, army, aviation) the prefix for cargo helicopter designations
  5. (set theory) continuum hypothesis
  6. (medicine) Initialism of cluster headache.
  7. Initialism of central heating.

Anagrams

Cornish

Letter

CH (upper case, lower case ch)

  1. Third letter of the Cornish Alphabet

Czech

Letter

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

  1. A digraph, the fourteenth letter of the Czech alphabet, after H and before I.

Usage notes

Upper case CH is usually used only in texts or parts of texts fully written in upper case. If it is the first letter of a name or of a sentence, mixed case Ch is usually used.

French

Proper noun

CH m pl

  1. (Canada) the hockey club, les Canadiens de Montréal.

Noun

CH m (plural CHs)

  1. Abbreviation of centre hospitalier. (lit. hospital center)

Coordinate terms

Italian

Abbreviation

CH

  1. Chieti (Italian town in Abruzzo)

Latvian

Letter

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

  1. a letter used in older, pre-World-War-II Latvian spelling, but now replaced everywhere by H (lower case h).

Usage notes

This letter can still be found in older books, or in books written by the Latvian diaspora prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. It used to represent the sound of IPA symbol /x/, as distinct from /h/; but since these sounds have merged as /x/ in current Latvian pronunciation, <h> (= /x/) is now used in all cases.

Spanish

Abbreviation

CH

  1. Chihuahua (Mexican state)

Letter

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

  1. che, the fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Usage notes

Since 1994, this letter has been treated as C followed by H for collation purposes only. In 2010, this letter was officially removed by the RAE from the Spanish alphabet.

Welsh

Letter

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

  1. èch, the fourth letter of the Welsh alphabet, after C and before D

Usage notes

Lke the other Welsh digraphs, CH is considered a distinct letter of the Welsh alphabet for all purposes, including collation. Thus, CHWECH is alphabetically sorted after CYLLELL.

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