Lingoflyஹ — ha
«ha» is a consonant of the Tamil script, read as “ha”. A breath, like English 'h'. The Tamil alphabet has 31 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. This character does not count as a letter of the alphabet. It appears, for example, in the word “ஹெட்போன்” (heḍpōṉ) — headphones.
In short
| Character | ஹ |
| Name | ha |
| Sound | ha |
| What it is | a consonant |
In our course the character comes 35th of 49: the order here is not alphabetical but from familiar to unfamiliar, its neighbours in the course are ஸ and ஶ, appears in 8 words of this site.
How to type ஹ
- On a phone: add the Tamil keyboard in the keyboard settings (Gboard on Android; Keyboards in the iPhone settings).
- In Word on Windows: type U+0BB9 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 0BB9.
- Unicode code point: U+0BB9. With it, the character can be found in the character map of any system.
How it sounds
A breath, like English 'h'
The character in the “grantha — letters for foreign sounds” group
Six signs taken from the grantha script for Sanskrit and English words. The Tamil classification does not count them: thirty-one letters means 12 vowels, 18 consonants and the aytham.
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 — 31 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 Tamil character ஹ read?
As “ha” — it is a consonant of the Tamil script. A breath, like English 'h'.