h

See also: Appendix:Variations of "h"

h U+0068, h
LATIN SMALL LETTER H
← g
[U+0067] 		Basic Latin i →
[U+0069]
ｈ U+FF48, ｈ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER H
← ｇ
[U+FF47] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｉ →
[U+FF49]

Translingual

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑː/, /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

See also

Pronunciation

  • IPA(file)

Symbol

h

  1. (IPA) voiceless glottal fricative.
  2. Planck's constant

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Other representations of H:

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /eɪtʃ/
  • (letter name): (non-standard) IPA(key): /heɪtʃ/
  • (letter name): (in Hiberno-English) IPA(key): [heːtʃ]
  • (letter name): (in Australian English) IPA(key): [hæɪtʃ]
Audio (US)(file)
Audio (UK)(file)
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/, silent

Letter

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

  1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
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Number

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Etymology 2

Initialism

h

  1. (sciences) abbreviation for hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
    • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:
      Another instance: 2h28m p. m., 10 micra; 3h08m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3h09m p. m., 4 micra.
  2. (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of hits by a player
  3. (slang) heroin
  4. (computing) hexadecimal (following a number)
    • 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
      If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
    • 1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book (page 47)
      The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.
Homographs

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h/

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɦaː/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Usage notes

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uːɐ̯/

Initialism

h

  1. (common, not restricted to scientific usage) hour
    15:30 h (read out as: fünfzehn Uhr dreißig, or: halb vier)
    3:30 p.m.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈhaː]

Conjunction

h

  1. (text messaging, informal) abbreviation of conjunction hogy (“that”)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Ido

Pronunciation

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /h/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /he/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

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Italian

Noun

h m, f (invariable)

  1. See under H

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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

(file)

Letter

H

h (upper case F, lower case f)

  1. 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].

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Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /x/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Maltese

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /-/, /ː/, /ħ/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Usage notes

  • In contemporary Maltese, h remains a true consonant [ħ] in word-final position (ikrah [ɪkraħ]) and in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, which become [ħː]. Otherwise it is silent but lengthens preceding or following a, e, o: hemm [ɛːmː], fehmet [fɛːmɛt]. Other vowels are not affected.

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h

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

Usage notes

  • When written before j, the h becomes silent.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ˈɣa/
  • Audio (BR)(file)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

h

  1. Abbreviation of hora.
    1. Used to indicate time in relation to a 24-hour clock.
      O evento é hoje, às 20h - The event is today at 8 p.m.
      09h30 - 09:30 a.m.
    2. Used to indicate any sequence of time in hours.
      O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s - The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

Usage notes

  • This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 0 and 23 to indicate the day's hours).
  • The abbreviation can be followed by a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour. This can be optionally represented by another abbreviation: min.
    • Example: 15h30 or 15h30min, the first being much more common
  • min can be further followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
    • Example: 20h43min08s

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ha/, /haʃ/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase) H

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /x/

Letter

h (Cyrillic spelling х)

  1. The 12th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by g and followed by i.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /x/, /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • (letter name):
    • IPA(key): /ˈat͡ʃe/
    • Audio (Spain)(file)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Turkish

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /h~x/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called he and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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