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Translingual

Letter

h (upper case H)

The eighth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

Symbol

(IPA) a voiceless glottal fricative or approximant.
(superscript ⟨ʰ⟩) (after a consonant) aspiration; (before a consonant) pre-aspiration; otherwise a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [h] – see ʰ.
(metrology) symbol for the prefix hecto-, indicating multiplication by 100
symbol of the hour
(italic) Planck's constant
helion
higgson
(transcription) aspiration

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter name):
- IPA^(key): /eɪt͡ʃ/
  - (General Australian) IPA^(key): [æɪt͡ʃ]
  - Rhymes: -eɪt͡ʃ
- (regional or nonstandard) IPA^(key): /heɪt͡ʃ/
  - (Ireland) IPA^(key): [heːt͡ʃ]
  - (General Australian, nonstandard) IPA^(key): [hæɪt͡ʃ]
- (South Asia) IPA^(key): /ɛt͡ʃ/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /h/, silent
Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Letter

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

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

Number

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Etymology 2

Abbreviations

Noun

(sciences) Abbreviation of hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
(baseball, in statistics) Abbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player
(slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
(computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)
Abbreviation of home phone.

Verb

(stenoscript) Abbreviation of have and inflections having, had
exception: hz 'has'

Etymology 3

Adjective

h (comparative more h, superlative most h)

Alternative form of H

Derived terms

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h lower case (upper 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 (lower case, upper case H)

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɦaː/, /ɦɑʃ/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛ/
- Conventional anglicization: he

Noun

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Pyramid Texts to New Kingdom]
1. courtyard
2. room, hall

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

jtnw n h

References

“hʾ (lemma ID 97220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 470.1–470.5
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 156
van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 293

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː/, [ˈ(h)ɑː]
(dated) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑʃː/, [ˈ(h)ɑʃː]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Finnish

Etymology 1

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and h for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

German musical notation.

Noun

(music) B (note)

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aʃ/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Derived terms

h aspiré
h muet

Symbol

Used to indicate the hour in a time indication, either with or without following minutes.
10h ― 10:00 a.m.

20h30 ― 8:30 p.m.

Fula

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

German

Etymology 1

Letter

the letter h, see H

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uːɐ̯/

Noun

(common, not restricted to scientific usage) hour

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌷

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called há and written in the Latin script.
(music) Alternative form of H (“B”, the seventh note in the C major scale, its symbol in writing or in print, or the equivalent key of a piano or stop of a stringed instrument)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhoɟ]

Conjunction

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of hogy (“that”).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /hauː/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Ido

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (upper 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 (lower case, upper case H)

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

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Prefix

marker of h-prothesis
na habhann ― of the river

fáilte go hÉirinn ― welcome to Ireland

chomh hard le crann ― as tall as a tree

Italian

Letter

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

The eighth letter of the Italian alphabet, called acca and written in the Latin script.

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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]

Letter

h (upper 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].

Livonian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Silent in most native words.
IPA^(key): (in most loanwords and some native words) /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Lushootseed

Letter

The fourteenth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiceless glottal fricative.

Malay

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Maltese

Etymology

Continues Arabic ه (h). In pre-modern Maltese, h still produces the sound [h] as recorded by Agius de Soldanis (1750) and Mikel Anton Vassalli (1796). The early contemporary variant was first found in the dialect of lsien tal-bliet (“tongues of the cities”, referring to the cities around the Grand Harbour according to Vassalli) which eventually superceded the increasingly archaic [h] sound in the neighborhing areas.

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /-/, /ː/, /j/, /w/, /ħ/
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /h/, /ħ/ (archaic)

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Usage notes

In contemporary Maltese, h remains a true consonant [ħ] in the following cases:
- in word-final position or when being the last radical of a verb: ikrah [ˈɪkraħ], jixbhu [ˈjɪʃpħʊ];
- before the negative ending -x: jarawhx [jaˈrawħʃ];
- in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, -hh-, which all become [ħħ].
Otherwise it is silent or leaves only a vocalic trace:
- Following and preceding a, e, o are lengthened if stressed: hedded [ˈɛːddɛt], fehmet [ˈfɛːmɛt]. Other vowels are not affected.
- In intervocalic position it is a glide, [j] after i, ie, and [w] after u: jibniha [jɪbˈnɪːja], inħobbuhom [ɪnħɔbˈbuːwɔm].
- The sequence -aho- becomes [ɔː]: rahom [rɔːm]. The sequence -ehi- becomes [ɛj] or [ɛˈjiː]: ftehim [ftɛjm], [ftɛˈjiːm].
On the other hand in pre-modern Maltese dialects that preserved the guttaral sounds, h remained as a true consonant with the aspirated and soft sound of [h] in all positions except:
- If word final h is an affixed pronoun: ħalluh [χal.lʊːħ], ħallih [χal.lɪːħ], fih [fɪːħ].
Phonotactically, word-initial h now generally behaves like a vowel, allowing contractions such as m’hemmx [mɛːmʃ]. However, word-internal h still behaves like a (virtual) consonant. Compare for example qablu [ˈʔablʊ] with qabilha [ʔaˈbɪla], which latter is formed as though the l were followed by a consonant.

Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

Usage notes

When written before j, the h becomes silent.

Nupe

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Polish

Etymology 1

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /x/, (dialectal) /h/; [ɣ], [ɦ] if voiced
(name of letter) IPA^(key): /xa/

Letter

h (upper case H, lower case)

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

Usage notes

Seemingly native words spelt with ⟨h⟩ (rather than ⟨ch⟩) are generally from Czech or other Slavic dialects. Otherwise ⟨h⟩ occurs in loanwords, especially from German. Some southern speakers distinguish between /x/ and /h/, but this is not part of standard Polish.

Etymology 2

Derived from Latin hōra.

Noun

h f

Abbreviation of godzina (“hour”).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Name: see agá

Letter:

in most words: silent
in expressive terms and recent loanwords: IPA^(key): /h/, [h], [ɦ], [ʁ]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

The eighth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called agá and written in the Latin script.
1. silent letter used mainly in words derived from Latin, Greek and other Romance languages; word-initial only
  hoje, hábito, hipnose, hotel ― today, habit, hypnosis, hotel
  1. (chiefly obsolete) silent letter used word-medially in loanwords
    coherente (now coerente) ― coherent
  2. (obsolete except in given names) used in the Hellenistic digraphs th, ph and rh
    thesouro (now tesouro), phalange (now falange), rheumatismo (now reumatismo), Cynthia (alongside Cíntia) ― treasure, phalanx, rheumatism, Cynthia
  3. (obsolete except in given names) used in words perceived to be Hellenisms
    thesoura (now tesoura), Nathalia ― scissors, Natalie
2. represents /h/ in most recent loanwords from other languages, most commonly English
3. used in the digraphs ch, lh and nh, where it indicates a palatal or post-alveolar pronunciation
  cheio, alho, banho ― full, garlic, bath
4. (obsolete) silent letter used word-initially in monosyllabic verbs with no attack
  hir (now ir), he (now é) ― to go, is
5. silent letter used syllable-finally in some interjections
  ih! oh! ― uh oh! ooh!
6. represents /h/ in some expressive terms
  hahaha! aham, hue hue ― hahaha! yep, hehehe
7. (chiefly Internet slang) used as a replacement for the acute or circumflex accent, or silent infinitive -r, indicating stress
  eh (standard é), Feh (standard Fê), fazeh (standard fazer) ― is, a nickname, to do
8. (obsolete except in the word Bahia) silent letter used to mark some hiatus

Noun

h f (invariable)

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 (as in French). 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

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper 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 (lower case, upper case H)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

The eighth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by g and followed by i. Its traditional name is uath (“hawthorn”).

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

H (uppercase)

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (Cyrillic spelling х)

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

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Slovene

Alternative forms

See usage notes for both etymologies.

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Symbol

(SNPT for Standard Slovene) Phonetic transcription of sound [x].
(dialectal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sounds [h, ħ].

Noun

h m inan or f

The name of the Latin script letter H / h.
(linguistics) The name of the phoneme /x/.

Inflection

Overall more common

More common when with a definite adjective

Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century

Rare

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kъ 'to', which is itself probably from Proto-Indo-European *k^u̯u 'where'. This form is a spirantization of k, which appeared to ease the pronunciation.

Pronunciation

Preposition

(with dative, see usage notes) to, for

Usage notes

Preposition h is a form of preposition k that appears before words that start with /k/ or /ɡ/ while other form is used for all other words. In "correct" pronunciation, the preposition does not form its own syllable, but binds to the first syllable of the next word and has therefore two pronunciations: [x] if word starts with [k] and [ɣ] if word starts with [ɡ]. In colloquial speech, this form (or at least its pronunciation) are also used with words starting with other letters.

References

Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎^[3] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (letter name) /ˈat͡ʃe/ [ˈa.t͡ʃe]
Rhymes: -atʃe

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Derived terms

Swedish

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Noun

(nonstandard, anglicism) Abbreviation of hour from English.
Synonyms: timme, tim.
(strictly technology) Abbreviation of hora from Latin.
Synonyms: timme, tim.
(music) B, note with a frequency close to 493.88 · 2ⁿ Hz
Synonym: (anglicism) b

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish h. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English h.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜑ (ha).
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish h.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔejt͡ʃ/ [ˈʔeɪ̯t͡ʃ] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -ejt͡ʃ
- IPA^(key): /ˈha/ [ˈha] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -a
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔat͡ʃe/ [ˈʔaː.t͡ʃɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
  - Rhymes: -at͡ʃe
- IPA^(key): /h/ [h] (phoneme; silent in Spanish unadapted loanwards)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜐ᜔)

The eighth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called eyts and written in the Latin script.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling ᜑ)

The seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called ha and written in the Latin script.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)

(historical) The ninth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called hache and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent ⟨h⟩ are spoken with /h/ due to spelling pronunciation, as people are becoming less aware of the letter being silent.

Turkish

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Usage notes

See H.

Turkmen

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (upper case H)

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /h/

Prefix

marker of h-prothesis
ei hiaith ― her language

i’n heglwys ― to our church

un ar hugain ― twenty-one

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

Zulu

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

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

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h

Translingual

Letter

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Pronunciation

Symbol

Gallery

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Number

Etymology 2

Noun

Verb

Etymology 3

Adjective

Derived terms

See also

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

Usage notes

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Letter

Derived terms

Symbol

Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

Usage notes

See also

German

Etymology 1

Letter

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun