h
/eɪt͡ʃ/ numeral, noun, proper noun, adverb, adjective
Forms hs h's
- numeral The eighth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.
- noun (UK) A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil of grade 2H; a pencil with hard lead.
- noun A pencil of grade H.
- proper noun (religion) A hypothetical source proposed to underlie the Holiness Code and to have influenced various other parts of the Torah.
- adverb (calendar terms) Synonym of AH: in the year of the Hegira, used to mark dates employing the Islamic calendar.
- adjective Pornographic in a way characteristic of hentai.
Synonyms
Big H boy brown sugar brown bujj diacetylmorphine diamorphine dog food dope dugee henry heroin horse junk muck mud ron scag smack spider hydrogen atomic number 1 Planck's constant heat content total heat enthalpy
Etymology
Abbreviations
From Latin H, from Ancient Greek Η (Ē).
Calque of Arabic هـ (h-)
Borrowed from Japanese H, alternative form of エッチ (etchi), in turn from English H as an abbreviation of Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
A doublet of ecchi (“erotic, lascivious”) and hentai (“pornographic anime, manga, etc.”).
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “h”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details