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ฮ ho nokhuk

ฮ (ho nokhuk) is the last letter of the Thai alphabet, a low-class consonant named after นกฮูก, “owl”. At the start of a syllable it is /h/, written h in RTGS, and it does not end syllables.

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ฮฮ นกฮูกho nokhuk · owl
Thai name
ฮ นกฮูก · ho nokhuk
Name word
นกฮูก, owl
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/h/ · RTGS h
At the end of a syllable
not used
Unicode
U+0E2E · THAI CHARACTER HO NOKHUK
In HTML
ฮ or ฮ
Kedmanee key
Shift + V
Pattachote key
Shift + M

How it sounds

The low-class h, the last letter of the alphabet. It appears mainly in loanwords, names and sounds, and lets Thai write low-class tones on h, which ห cannot.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ห ho hip (high).

Easy to mistake for อ o ang: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ฮ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฮาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฮะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฮากFalling
Mai ekฮ่าFalling
Mai thoฮ้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ฮ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ฮัลโหลhanlohello (on the phone)
ฮ่องกงHong KongHong Kong
ฮวงจุ้ยhuangchuifeng shui
ฮาhafunny (slang)

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ฮ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.