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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A high-class consonant. It says h at the start of a syllable and makes no sound at all at the end — it never closes one. 41st in the alphabet, 18th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it constantly.
2 of the 44 letters open a syllable with h, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. It closes nothing: ห is one of 3 letters that can only ever open a syllable.
High class takes only two of the four marks. Unmarked and live, ห rises; ◌่ pulls it low and ◌้ makes it fall. Every dead syllable is low, and there is no mark that can change that.
ห is h at the front of a syllable and silence at the back — it closes none. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 189 and sits inside 424 — the letter has no final sound to make.
Position here is orthographic — where the letter is written, not where it is said. The five leading vowels เ แ โ ใ ไ are skipped when deciding what comes first, so ไก่ counts as a word that starts with ก.
ห makes no sound at all at the end of a syllable — it never closes one. Thai writes it at the front, or silently inside, and never as the letter a syllable finishes on.
A word list is a specimen jar. 82 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ห somewhere in them — here are 4, shortest first, with every ห lit.
ห is one of 11 high-class consonants. That membership is the single fact the ladder in 02 is built on — change the class and every tone in it changes. Here they all are, with ห lit among them.
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