LingoflyҺ һ
«һ» is a consonant of the Kazakh script, read as “h as in "hat"”. A light breath, softer than kh. The Kazakh alphabet has 42 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. Rare, found in a few borrowed words. The small letter looks exactly like a Latin h. It appears, for example, in the word “Жиһазды пәтер” (Zhihazdy päter) — furnished apartment.
In short
| Character | Һ һ |
| Sound | h as in "hat" |
| What it is | a consonant |
In our course the character comes 31st of 42, its neighbours in the course are х and ц, appears in 4 words of this site.
How to type Һ һ
- On a phone: add the Kazakh keyboard in the keyboard settings (Gboard on Android; Keyboards in the iPhone settings).
- In Word on Windows: type U+04BB and press Alt+X right after it — the code turns into the character.
- On a Mac: switch to the Unicode Hex Input source, hold Option and type 04BB.
- Unicode code points: һ — U+04BB, Һ — U+04BA. With them, the characters can be found in the character map of any system.
How it sounds
A light breath, softer than kh
The character in the “nine letters of its own” group
They carry the sounds the Russian alphabet has no letters for. Five are vowels (ә ө ұ ү і), and vowel harmony rests on them: a word is spoken all-back or all-front, and the ending adjusts to it.
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound, see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 42 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Kazakh character һ read?
As “h as in "hat"” — it is a consonant of the Kazakh script. A light breath, softer than kh.