h

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiceless glottal fricative or approximant.
 * (after a consonant) aspiration; (before a consonant) pre-aspiration; otherwise a weak, fleeting or epenthetic – see ʰ.
 * 1)  symbol for the prefix hecto-, indicating multiplication by 100
 * 2) symbol of the hour
 * 3)  Planck's constant
 * 4) helion
 * 5) higgson
 * 6)  aspiration

Etymology 2
Abbreviations

Noun

 * 1)   the number of hits by a player
 * 2)   (following a number)
 * 1)   the number of hits by a player
 * 2)   (following a number)
 * 1)   (following a number)

Verb

 * exception: 'has'
 * exception: 'has'

Noun

 * 1) courtyard
 * 2) room, hall
 * 1) room, hall

Etymology 2
German musical notation.

Noun

 * 1)  B note

Noun

 * 1)  hour

Etymology 2
Abbreviation.

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

Etymology
Continues. In pre-modern Maltese, h still produces the sound as recorded by  (1750) and  (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(“tongues of the cities”, referring to the cities around the Grand Harbour according to Vassalli) which eventually superceded the increasingly archaic sound in the neighborhing areas.

Usage notes

 * In contemporary Maltese, h remains a true consonant in the following cases:
 * in word-final position or when being the last radical of a verb:,  ;
 * before the negative ending : ;
 * in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, -hh-, which all become.
 * Otherwise it is silent or leaves only a vocalic trace:
 * Following and preceding a, e, o are lengthened if stressed:,  . Other vowels are not affected.
 * In intervocalic position it is a glide, after i, ie, and  after u: ,.
 * The sequence -aho- becomes : . The sequence -ehi- becomes  or : ,.
 * 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 in all positions except:
 * If word final h is an affixed pronoun:,  ,.
 * Phonotactically, word-initial now generally behaves like a vowel, allowing contractions such as  . However, word-internal  still behaves like a (virtual) consonant. Compare for example   with , which latter is formed as though the l were followed by a consonant.

Usage notes

 * When written before j, the h becomes silent.

Pronunciation

 * ; if voiced

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 and, but this is not part of standard Polish.

Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
Name: see

Letter:
 * in most words: silent
 * in expressive terms and recent loanwords:

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:.
 * Example: 15h30 or 15h30min, the first being much more common
 * can be further followed by another abbreviation,, to represent seconds.
 * Example: 20h43min08s

Letter

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

Letter

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

Alternative forms
See usage notes for both etymologies.

Etymology 1
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from Latin. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

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.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].
 * 2)  Phonetic transcription of sounds [, ].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective


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


 * Rare

Etymology 2
From 'to', which is itself probably from  'where'. This form is a spirantization of, which appeared to ease the pronunciation.

Preposition

 * 1)  to, for

Usage notes
Preposition h is a form of preposition that appears before words that start with  or  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: if word starts with  and  if word starts with. In colloquial speech, this form (or at least its pronunciation) are also used with words starting with other letters.

Noun

 * 1)   from English.
 * 2)   from Latin.
 * 3)  B, note with a frequency close to 493.88 · 2n Hz
 * 1)  B, note with a frequency close to 493.88 · 2n Hz
 * 1)  B, note with a frequency close to 493.88 · 2n Hz

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 $·$ are spoken with due to spelling pronunciation, as people are becoming less aware of the letter being silent.

Usage notes

 * See.