ห

Letter

 * 1)  (ห หีบ), the 41st consonant letter of the Thai alphabet

Usage notes

 * This letter belongs to the
 * A silent, high-class ห "leads" low-class nasal stops (,, and ) and non-plosives (, ,  and ), which have no corresponding high-class phonetic match, into the tone properties of a high-class consonant. In polysyllabic words, an initial mid- or high-class consonant with an implicit vowel similarly "leads" these same low-class consonants into the higher class tone rules, with the tone marker borne by the low-class consonant.