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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A low-class consonant. It says h at the start of a syllable and makes no sound at all at the end — it never closes one. 44th in the alphabet, 44th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it now and then.
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: ฮ is one of 3 letters that can only ever open a syllable.
Low class takes the same two marks high class does and means something different by them: on ฮ, ◌่ gives falling rather than low and ◌้ gives highrather than falling. A dead syllable then turns on the vowel’s length.
ฮ 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 4 and sits inside 2 — 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.
ฮ 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. 1 of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app are written with ฮ somewhere in them — here is one, shortest first, with every ฮ lit.
ฮ is one of 24 low-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 ฮ lit among them.
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