H

Etymology
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph  or maybe.

Letter

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

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for hydrogen.
 * 2)  Symbol for a henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
 * 3)  Symbol for a generic Hamiltonian.
 * 4)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine
 * 5)  Homology group or cohomology group
 * 6)  high tone
 * 7)  A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant
 * synonyms: Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals

Usage notes

 * An H with a numerical (or variable) superscript denotes a homology group; with a subscript, it denotes a cohomology group.

Etymology 1
From 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
 * 2) A pencil of grade H.
 * 1)  A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
 * 2) A pencil of grade H.
 * 1)  A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
 * 2) A pencil of grade H.
 * 1)  A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
 * 2) A pencil of grade H.
 * 1)  A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
 * 2) A pencil of grade H.

Adjective

 * 1)   in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
 * 2)   in reference to a dialect's social status.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A hypothetical source proposed to underlie the Holiness Code and to have influenced various other parts of the Torah.

Adverb

 * : in the year of the Hegira, used to mark dates employing the Islamic calendar.

Etymology 3
Borrowed from, alternative form of , in turn from as an abbreviation of.

A of  and.

Adjective

 * 1) Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.

Usage notes
The term is sometimes connected to the noun following it with a hyphen, as in, for example.

Letter

 * 1) The twentyfirst and penultimate letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) H

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial.

Usage notes

 * In the German-based spelling, silent h may be written to indicate a preceding long vowel. Some writers make liberal use of this, but the predominant tendency is to use doubled vowel letters instead and allow h only in the following cases:
 * where it serves to indicate a hiatus: ;
 * where the German cognate has h as well: (German );
 * where the German cognate has ch or g: (German ).
 * Silent h is not used in the Dutch-based spelling.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, initialism of. Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  dirty; lewd; perverted
 * 2)  sexual; pornographic

Verb

 * 1)  to have sex

Noun

 * 1)  sexual intercourse

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Noun

 * 1)  the 10th letter in the Czech alphabet
 * 2)  B

Letter

 * 1) The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Pronunciation

 * The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before, and before suffixes. In common speech, h is frequently silent in the onset of all word-internal unstressed syllables, thus e.g. in and  (unless these have secondary stress).
 * The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before, and before suffixes. In common speech, h is frequently silent in the onset of all word-internal unstressed syllables, thus e.g. in and  (unless these have secondary stress).

Letter

 * 1) The eighth letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes
For the use of silent h in German orthography one may note three general rules:
 * 1) It occurs only after long monophthongs and the diphthong ei.
 * 2) It occurs after simple i only in the pronominal stems, , , and in.
 * 3) It is mostly restricted to native Germanic words; instances in loanwords are exceptional.

Expanding on this, one can distinguish three types of silent h:
 * 1) Etymological h is written in words where  had a consonant that has become silent; this was usually h, occasionally g or w. Etymological h is missing only in a few words (e.g., , ).
 * 2) Hiatus-breaking h is written when an inflectable word stem ends in a long monophthong. This, too, is missing only in a few native words (e.g., certain nouns like , , ).
 * 3) Lengthening h (in the strict sense) may be written between long a, ä, e, o, ö, u, ü and following l, m, n, r. Its use is very irregular and it is missing in a great deal of words. At times this is done to distinguish homophones (e.g.  vs. ), but in general there is no clear system. One can note that lengthening h proper does not occur in stems starting with sch-, sp-, t-. It is overall rare in words starting with more than one consonant, but there are several counterexamples (e.g., , ).

Noun

 * 1)  B

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of Hungary.

Noun

 * 1) Hungary on license plates

Usage notes

 * Used in the strings to indicate the stop realisatins . Also used in the four verb forms  to distinguish from . Otherwise it may occur in unadapted borrowings from modern languages. It is not used in loanwords from the classical languages.

Usage notes
Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.

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.

Letter




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 🇨🇬, ), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA [h].

Pronunciation

 * Silent in most native words.

Letter

 * 1) The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Pronunciation

 * ; if voiced

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Alternative forms
See usage notes.

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from Latin , from , from , from , from the  hieroglyph  or maybe. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Pronunciation

 * Phoneme


 * Letter name

Usage notes
In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was written by two different letters whether it was pronounced as velar or glottal, a distinction irrelevant to nowadays standard and the distinction was also not used by all writers. Phoneme was written with 〈H〉, while  was written with a yet to be encoded character.

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective


 * Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Usage notes

 * 1) The twenty-first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by W and followed by Y.

Letter

 * 1) the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

 * Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent $⟨h⟩$ are spoken with due to the loss of knowledge of the letter being silent.

Usage notes

 * The pronunciation /ˈhaʃ/ is usually preferred in sciences like geometry or physics to avoid confusion with.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * H cannot be mutated in Welsh.