DH

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DH is an initialism that can stand for various things including:

• Daniel Henny, a Korean-American actor who featured in the Korean drama My name is Kim Sam Soon
• Delaware and Hudson Railroad (AAR reporting marks DH)
• Dermatitis herpetiformis, the skin disease
• Designated hitter, in Baseball
• Desperate Housewives, a popular American TV show
• Dhahran from DH
• Downhill cycling
• Downhill skiing
• the nickname for the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange algorithm
• the IATA code for Independence Air from DH.
• the digraph dh
• DH can be Decision Height, the minimum height above the runway used by a pilot for landing decisions.
• DH is Domestic Housemate, or Domestic Housepartner
• DH is Domestic Helper, which for US work visa purposes includes, but is not limited to, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, housemaids, valets, footmen, nannies, au pairs, mothers' helpers, gardeners, and paid companions.
• DH is "Darling Husband"
• DH Logistics, a spelling by DHL.
• Dh, DH or Dhs are unofficial currency codes for the national currency of the United Arab Emirates, the Dirham

As a digraph, dh may either represent a voiced dental fricative /ð/ in scores of languages, or as a voiced dental aspirated plosive (stop, tenue) sound /dʰ/ in Sanskrit, Hindi, Aryan, and Proto-Indo-European. DH is also considered to be one of the letters of the Albanian alphabet.