CH

Etymology
Abbreviation of

Etymology
Abbreviation

Noun

 * , a British honour and postnominal abbreviation.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Montreal Canadiens hockey club
 * 2)  Indian union territory

Letter

 * 1) Third letter of the

Letter

 * 1) a digraph, the fourteenth letter of the Czech alphabet, after  and before

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.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the hockey club, les Canadiens de Montréal

Noun

 * 1)  lit. hospital center

Proper noun

 * 1)  Italian town in Abruzzo

Letter

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

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,  (= /x/) is now used in all cases.

Usage notes
Alphabetized between H and I.

Letter

 * 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.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mexican state

Etymology
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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.

Letter

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

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