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H
Translingual
Etymology
From the mul ett - letter ett 𐌇 he, from the mul grc - letter grc Η eta, derived from the mul phn - letter phn 𐤇 het, from the mul egy - hieroglyph egy 𓈈 or maybe egy 𓉗.
Letter
mul
mul letter 8
See also
Symbol
mul Q556 hydrogen
mul physics henry, a unit for measurement of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.
mul mechanics A generic Hamiltonian.
mul amino acid IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for histidine.
mul mathematics Homology group or cohomology group.
mul linguistics High tone.
mul linguistics A wildcard for a glottal consonant or more broadly for a laryngeal consonant.
mul Q for uvular consonants, Φ for pharyngeals.
mul clothing Bra cup size.
mul programming Indicates that a number is written in hexadecimal.
mul 0x
en mul Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/851038/intel-64-and-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-s-manual-combined-volumes-1-2a-2b-2c-2d-3a-3b-3c-3d-and-4.html March 2025 2A page 3-257 When CPUID executes with EAX set to 07H and the input value of ECX is invalid (see leaf 07H entry in Table 1-17), the processor returns 0 in EAX/EBX/ECX/EDX. In subleaf 0, EAX returns the maximum input value of the highest leaf 7 sub-leaf, and EBX, ECX & EDX contain information of extended feature flags.
The symbol in bases higher than seventeen for the number expressed as mul 17 in decimal.
mul license plate codes Hungary
Usage notes
in mathematics An H with a numerical (or variable) superscript denotes a homology group; with a subscript, it denotes a cohomology group.
Gallery
See also
H Hotel ···· ⠓
English
Etymology 1
From la H, from grc Η.
Pronunciation
letter name en /eɪtʃ/
en en-uk-h.ogg UK
en /heɪtʃ/
en /(h)ɛ(j)tʃ/ Indic
en eɪtʃ ɛtʃ 1 Indic,also
Letter
en
en letter 8 aitch
3 On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.
Derived terms
en CHNOPS CHON CVH H-1B H-2A H-2B H-DNA H-field H-pop H-S chart H-shackle H-Town MGU H Poblacion H Purok H
See also
Noun
- s
en baseball en hits.
en slang en heroin.
en Thesaurus:heroin
en 1956 w:Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night: The Startling Story of Prostitution in New York Today New York Julian Messner, Inc. r6U6AAAAMAAJ 59 H “Anyway, when he came out of Patsy's room, I grabbed him by the arm and said, ‘Gee whiz, doc, haven't you got a couple of pills for me—even demerol?’ ” / Willie broke off to explain. “That's a synthetic. We call them demmies. If you can't buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.”
en Crazed Country Rebel w:Hank Williams III Straight to Hell 2006 Then I got some H / From my old Uncle Pete / Now I'm startin' to feel / Like I might've ODed
en journalism en half-year.
en Q quarter
en We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.
en British A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
A pencil of grade H.
en in job listings en handicap.
en EOE M/F/V/H equal opportunity employer (minority, female, veteran, handicap)
en India Hinduism internet slang en Hindu; mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.
en M Muslim
Adjective
-
en British en hard in reference to a grade of pencil lead.
en linguistics en high in reference to a dialect's social status.
en An H variety usually enjoys official approval and cultural prestige.
en philately en hinged.
en UK film historical en horrific a former film classification.
Meronyms
pencil grade en 2H ligher than H, en HB harder than H
Number
en
en
en ordinal 8 aitch
Proper noun
?
en religion A hypothetical source proposed to underlie the Holiness Code and to have influenced various other parts of the Torah.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=pnHhCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA277 The Poetic Priestly Source Jason M. H. Gaines w:Fortress Press w:Minneapolis 9781451494365 2015 277 H is priestly, evincing concern for cultic sacrifices, cultic observances, the behavior of priests, and ethical matters. H is not P, however, as it has unique vocabulary and contradicts several aspects of Priestly theology, such as the status of the Israelites, the importance of "the land," and whether YHWH or the Israelites own the land.
Etymology 2
en ar هـ
Adverb
-
en calendar terms en AH: in the year of the Hegira, used to mark dates employing the Islamic calendar.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from en ja H -, alternative form of ja エッチ etchi, in turn from en en H as an abbreviation of en ja - ja 変態 hentai pervert.
A doublet of en ecchi erotic, lascivious and en hentai pornographic anime, manga, etc..
Adjective
Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.
en H scene
en alt.manga I am going to Berkeley, CA and I was wondering if there were any nearby places to go to get good nasty H stuff. And do you have any recommendations? Help with H manga needed! :-) 1993-08-05 https://groups.google.com/g/alt.manga/c/IFsU8vF47Bc/m/DacOjcBhk6sJ 2023-03-15 Eric B. Shen
en https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/57240679/#57242424 Desuarchive [originally posted on 4chan] This artwork predicates a very H SCENE immediately following this capture. /tg/ - Traditional Games » Thread #57240679 2018-01-03 [anonymous] https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101921/https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/57240679/ 2023-03-15 2023-03-15 [post #57242424] https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/57240679/#57242424 Bibliotheca Anonoma
en 2020-09-29 GAVINASSS 1310863634717958144 Who needs Yotsubato for easy JP reading material when you have raw untranslated H doujinshi / You can jack off AND feel like you've accomplished something https://web.archive.org/web/20200929181004/twitter.com/GAVINASSS/status/1310863634717958144 2020-09-29 2023-03-15
Usage notes
The term is sometimes connected to the noun following it with a hyphen, as in en H-manga, for example.
Alternative forms
en h
en Islamism Fiction Japanese fiction Pornography Recreational drugs
Afar
Letter
aa
aa letter 21
See also
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
letter name af /ɦɑː/
Letter
af
af letter 8
See also
Noun
H's H'tjie
H
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
phoneme az [h]
letter name az [heː] [hɯː]
Letter
az
az letter 11
See also
Basque
Pronunciation
raw:/h/<q:phoneme><qq:Northern>
Letter
eu
eu letter 8 hatxe
See also
Further reading
Catalan
Pronunciation
hac
Letter
ca
ca letter 8 hac
See also
Central Franconian
Etymology
/h/ is from West Germanic stem-initial gmw-pro *h.
Pronunciation
/h/ or silent, see below
Letter
gmw-cfr
gmw-cfr letter German-based
gmw-cfr letter Dutch-based
Usage notes
2 Use of silent H
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: gmw-cfr bloo blohe [ˈblɔːə];
where the German cognate has h as well: gmw-cfr fähle (German de fehlen);
where the German cognate has ch or g: gmw-cfr maache mäht (German de macht).
Silent h is not used in the Dutch-based spelling.
Chinese
Etymology 1
zh :bor ja:エッチ<id:sexual>
Borrowed from zh ja H etchi, initialism of ja 変態 hentai sexual perversion. Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of cmn - 黃 or yue - 鹹 hām4.
Pronunciation
éichi ik1 cyu4 êh8 cu7 sh:7eq&6chy a,v,n
Adjective
zh adjectives
zh neologism slang dirty; lewd; perverted
zh neologism slang attributive sexual; pornographic
H{éichi} 漫 erotic comic; hentai manga
Verb
zh verbs
zh neologism slang to have sex
一般而言,能 明確 認同 自己 身份 的 網友 大多 是 非常 難以 接受 傳統 的 戀愛 方式,如「極度 討厭 跟 直男 的 戀愛 方式」;有的 則 是 不能 接受 傳統 的 性交 方式,如「我 不能 跟 男人 正常 H,我 會 想 吐,不對,是 我 會 吐。」 2012 May 1, zh 陈亚亚 (Chen Yaya), zh 《从“女攻男受”到“第四爱”——试论青少年的性/别多元与平等之实践进程》, in zh 《性别多元:理论与实务研究(上)》, page 6-7 Yībān'éryán, néng míngquè rèntóng zìjǐ shēnfèn de wǎngyǒu dàduō shì fēicháng nányǐ jiēshòu chuántǒng de liàn'ài fāngshì, rú “jídù tǎoyàn gēn zhínán de liàn'ài fāngshì”; yǒude zé shì bùnéng jiēshòu chuántǒng de xìngjiāo fāngshì, rú “wǒ bùnéng gēn nánrén zhèngcháng H, wǒ huì xiǎng tù, bùduì, shì wǒ huì tù.”
Noun
zh nouns
zh neologism slang sexual intercourse
Etymology 2
Pronunciation 1
áichi,áiche,éichi,áiqǔ,áiqu,ếchi ik1 cyu4 êh8 cu7 sh:7eq&6chy letters
Letter
zh
zh letter 8 the Latin alphabet as used in Chinese
Derived terms
zh yue:廚叉 H股
Pronunciation 2
hē,hā,1nb=common,2nb=official letters
Letter
zh
zh letter 8 Pinyin
Usage notes
Czech
Pronunciation
cs /haː/
Letter
cs
cs letter 13
See also
Dutch
Pronunciation
letter name nl /ɦaː/
nl Nl-H.ogg
Letter
nl
the eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet
See also
Elfdalian
Alternative forms
ovd ᚼ Å Dalecarlian runes
Letter
ovd
ovd letter 10
Esperanto
Pronunciation
See eo h.
Letter
eo
eo letter 10 ho
See also
Further reading
h
ho
Estonian
et:
Letter
et
et letter 8 haa hašš
See also
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
/h/ mostly hoo name of letter
Letter
fi
fi letter 8 hoo
Derived terms
fi compounds H-kisko H-teräs
See also
Noun
fi h B (musical note) note
French
Pronunciation
ache
fr Fr-H-fr-Paris.ogg Paris
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-H.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
Letter
fr
fr letter 8 ache
German
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
phoneme de /h/ /ː/, silent
The letter is silent in the syllable coda, before /ə/, and before suffixes. In informal speech, h is frequently silent in the onset of all word-internal unstressed syllables, thus e.g. in de -heit and de -haft (unless these have secondary stress).
name de /haː/
de De-h.ogg
de aː 1
Letter
de
de letter 8
Usage notes
2 Spelling rules for silent h
For the use of silent h in German orthography one may note three general rules:
It occurs only after long monophthongs and the diphthong ei.
It occurs after simple i only in the pronominal stems de ihm, de ihn ihn-, de ihr ihr- (and in de Schlemihl).
It is mostly restricted to native Germanic words; instances in loanwords are exceptional.
Expanding on this, one can distinguish three types of silent h:
Etymological h is written in words where gmh - had a consonant that has become silent; this was usually h, sometimes g, j or w. Etymological h is missing only in a few words (e.g. de rau, de Ton, de Träne).
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. de säen, certain nouns like de Knie, de See, de Schnee).
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. de malen vs. de mahlen), 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. de Drohne, de prahlen, de Stuhl).
See also
Noun
n,-,-:s
en H
Declension
n,-,-:s
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
de /haː/
de De-h.ogg
de aː 1
Noun
n,-.sg
de music B
Declension
n,-.sg
See also
de B B-flat
Further reading
Hawaiian
Alternative forms
haw hē letter name
Pronunciation
letter name hē
phoneme /h/
Letter
haw
haw letter 6
See also
Heiltsuk
Pronunciation
hei /ɦ/
Letter
hei
hei letter 56
See also
Hungarian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
phoneme
letter name há
Letter
hu
hu letter 14 há
Declension
H- oH-
See also
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of Hungary.
Noun
Hungary on license plates
hu terms with multiple lemma etymologies terms with letter and noun etymologies
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Há<qq:letter name>
Letter
is
is letter 10
See also
Ido
Pronunciation
io /h/
Letter
io
io letter 8
See also
Indonesian
Pronunciation
letter name id /ha/
phoneme id /h/
Letter
id
id letter 8
See also
Irish
Letter
ga
ga letter 8
See also
Isoko
Letter
iso
iso letter 14
References
E. O. Agbada et al, Vbuhrẹ Ụmụ́bọrá Isoko (Teach Yourself Isoko), first published 2008, revised edition 2017, page 8, 10
Onyerioma Isaac Itegolor, Isoko Wha Dooo...! Book 2 (Operation Speak Your Language), Revised Standard Edition (2015), page 1
Joe Okedi, Abidi Isoko Na Kpobi, 2020
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
àcca<pre:letter name>
phonemic realization is silent
Letter
it
it letter 8 acca
Usage notes
Used in the strings en che, chi, ghe, ghi to indicate the stop realisatins /k/ /ɡ/. Also used in the four verb forms it ho, hai, ha, hanno to distinguish from it o, ai, a, anno. Otherwise it may occur in unadapted borrowings from modern languages. It is not used in loanwords from the classical languages.
See also
Italian alphabet
Japanese
Etymology 1
Adjective
エッチ えっち na
ja エッチ dirty; lewd; perverted; sexual etchi
Noun
エッチ えっち
ja エッチ sexual intercourse etchi
Verb
エッチ えっち
ja エッチ to fuck; to have sex with etchi
Conjugation
エッチ
Etymology 2
歯
ja Sex えっち
ja terms written in foreign scripts
Kalo Finnish Romani
Pronunciation
rmf /h/ /ɦ/fi Kimmo Granqvist Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi Consice grammar of Finnish Romani Aakkoset Alphabet 1-2 https://www.academia.edu/1523925/Lyhyt_Suomen_romanikielen_kielioppi_Consice_grammar_of_Finnish_Romani_ 2011 Helsinki Kotimaisten kielten keskus 978-952-5446-69-2 1796-041X February 6, 2022
Letter
rmf
rmf letter 8
Usage notes
Also used in the digraphs Kh, Ph, and Th.
See also
References
Kankanaey
Etymology
kne tl H. Letter pronunciation is influenced by kne en H.
Pronunciation
eyts<a:letter name> h<a:phoneme>
Letter
letter
kne letter 8 eyts
See also
References
10-11
Kashubian
Etymology
Letter
csb
csb letter 12
See also
Khiamniungan Naga
Etymology
Pronunciation
kix /hə³³/
Letter
kix
kix Patsho kix letter 4
See also
Pronunciation guide
Latin
Letter
la
la letter representing the sound /h/
See also
Latvian
lv:
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
x
lv lv-riga-h.ogg
Letter
class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|H
lv
lv letter 12 hā
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 de machen, de ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA [h].
See also
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Silent in most native words.
dsb /h/ in most loanwords and some native words
Letter
dsb
dsb letter 11 ha
See also
list:Latin script letters/dsb
Luxembourgish
Letter
lb
lb letter 8
See also
Noun
m H-en H
the letter en H
Further reading
Malay
ms:
Pronunciation
ms [et͡ʃ] [het͡ʃ] Name of letter
ms [h] Phoneme
Letter
ms
ms letter 8
See also
Maltese
Letter
mt
mt letter 10
See also
Navajo
Letter
nv
nv letter
See also
Norwegian
Pronunciation
no /hoː/
Letter
no
no letter 8
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Letter
nb
nb letter 8
See also
Noun
H-
the letter en H
References
“H – bokstav” in no Store norske leksikon.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Letter
nn
nn letter 8
See also
Noun
H-
the letter en H
References
Nupe
Pronunciation
phoneme nup /h/
Letter
nup
nup letter 10
See also
Nuxalk
Pronunciation
phoneme blc /ɦ/
Letter
blc
blc letter 5
See also
Old English
Pronunciation
ang /x/
Letter
ang
ang letter
Oromo
Pronunciation
ha
ha
om Om-h.ogg
Letter
om
om letter 8
Polish
Etymology
pl letter
Pronunciation
ha - - LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-H.wav
Letter
pl
pl letter 11 ha
See also
Portuguese
pt:
Pronunciation
agá<q:letter name>
Letter
pt
pt letter 8 agá
See also
Romani
Pronunciation
rom /h/
Letter
rom
rom International Standard rom letter 10
rom Pan-Vlax rom letter 11
See also
Romanian
Pronunciation
ro /h/
Letter
ro
ro letter 10 haș ha hî
See also
Saanich
Pronunciation
str /h/
Letter
str nocase
str letter 10
See also
Scottish Gaelic
Letter
gd
gd letter 8 G I ; traditionally named gd uath hawthorn
See also
Silesian
Etymology
Letter
szl
szl letter 10
See also
Skolt Sami
Pronunciation
phoneme sms /x/ /h/
Letter
sms
sms letter 15
See also
Slovene
sl:
Alternative forms
See usage notes.
Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet sh H, from sl cs - alphabet cs H, from Latin sl la H, from sl ett 𐌇 he, from sl grc Η eta, from phn 𐤇 het, from the sl egy - hieroglyph egy 𓈈 or maybe egy 𓉗. Pronunciation as /xə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from sl de H.
Pronunciation
Phoneme
sl /x/ [ɣ] /h/ [ɣ] sl /x/ [ɣ] /h/ [ɣ]
Letter name
H hə̀, há ə̏, ā sl [ˈxə̂] [ˈxâː] [ˈxǎː] [hə̏] [hā] sl [ˈxə] [ˈxaː] [hə̀] [hā] sl Sl-nt-h.ogg
sl ə aː [ə̀], [á] sl H sl h ha *hə̀ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏ *hə̏
Letter
sl
sl letter 9
sl letter 14 Resian
sl letter 10 Natisone Valley dialect
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 frameless.
Noun
H m-in,f
The name of the Latin script letter H / h.
Declension
Overall more common
H H-ja H-ju, H-ji H H-ju, H-ji H-jem H H-ja H-jev H-jema H-ja H-jih H-jema H-ja H-ji H-jev H-jem H-je H-jih H-ji H-ji m-in-1-s j- 1
More common when with a definite adjective
H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H m-3 1
Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century
H H-ja H-ju, H-ji H H-ju, H-ji H-jom H H-ja H-jov H-joma H-ja H-jih H-joma H-ja H-ji H-jov H-jom H-je H-jih H-ji H-ji m-in-1 j-
More common when with a definite adjective
H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H f-3 1
See also
Further reading
Somali
Pronunciation
phoneme so /h/
letter name so /hæ/
Letter
so
so letter 21 ha W Y
Usage notes
The Somali alphabet follows the Arabic abjad order.
See also
Spanish
Letter
es
es letter 8
Derived terms
es bomba H
See also
Swedish
Letter
sv
sv letter 7
See also
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es H. Each pronunciation has a different source:
Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by tl en H.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character tl ᜑ.
Abecedario pronunciation is from tl es H.
Pronunciation
éyts,ets<q:regional><qq:letter name, Filipino alphabet> há<qq:letter name, Abakada alphabet> atse<qq:letter name, Abecedario> +<qq:phoneme; silent in Spanish unadapted loanwards>
Letter
tl
8 eyts fil
7 ha abak
tl historical 9 hache abec
Usage notes
Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent h are spoken with /h/ due to the loss of knowledge of the letter being silent.
See also
See also
tl CH
Further reading
Turkish
Pronunciation
letter name tr standard /ˈheː/ /ˈhaʃ/
phoneme tr /h/ [ç]
Letter
tr
tr letter 10 he
Usage notes
The pronunciation /ˈhaʃ/ is usually preferred in sciences like geometry or physics to avoid confusion with tr E, such as in mul H₂O (haş‿iki o:).
See also
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
hắt hát hờ
Letter
vi
vi letter 11 hắt hát hờ
See also
Welsh
Pronunciation
cy /aːɨ̯tʃ/ /ai̯tʃ/ cy-N,standard
cy /haːɨ̯tʃ/ /hə/ cy-N,colloquial
cy /ai̯tʃ/ cy-S,standard
cy /hai̯tʃ/ /hə/ cy-S,colloquial
Letter
cy
cy letter 12 aitsh It is preceded by cy Ng and followed by cy I.
See also
Mutation
H cannot be mutated in Welsh.
Further reading
Yoruba
Pronunciation
phoneme yo /h/
letter name yo /hí/
Letter
yo
yo letter 9 hí
See also
Zulu
Letter
zu
zu letter 8
See also