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characternumeralnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • Australia/[æɪt͡ʃ]/
  • Ireland/[heːt͡ʃ]/
  • //eɪt͡ʃ//
  • //heɪt͡ʃ//

The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

numeral

  1. 1

    The eighth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of hourAbbreviation of hour, particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units.

    Another instance: 2ʰ28ᵐ p. m., 10 micra; 3ʰ08ᵐ p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3ʰ09ᵐ p. m., 4 micra.

  2. 2

    Variant of hitAbbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player.

  3. 3

    Variant of heroinslangAbbreviation of heroin.

  4. 4

    Variant of hexadecimalAbbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number).

    If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

    The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.

  5. 5

    Variant of home phoneAbbreviation of home phone.

Etymology

Abbreviations

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of H.Alternative form of H.

Forms

plural
hs, h's
comparative
more h
superlative
most h
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).