DH
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DH is an initialism that can stand for various things including:
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[edit] Arts and literature
- Digraph representing dh
- Digraph representing 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.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th book in the Harry Potter series
[edit] Business and finance
- 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
[edit] Government and politics
- Department of Health (United Kingdom) the Department of Health of the UK Government
- Dhahran from DH
[edit] People
- Daniel Henny, a Korean-American actor who featured in the Korean drama My name is Kim Sam Soon
[edit] Science, technology and engineering
- Degrees hardness (°dH), a scale for measuring the mineral content in water samples
- Dermatitis herpetiformis, the skin disease
- Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange algorithm
- Dreamhack, the world's biggest LAN party
[edit] Society
- 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" or "Dear Husband"
[edit] Sports and entertainment
- Designated hitter, in Baseball
- Desperate Housewives, a popular American TV show
- Division d'Honneur, the regional leagues corresponding to the sixth level of French football
- Downhill cycling
- Downhill skiing
[edit] Transportation
- Delaware and Hudson Railroad (AAR reporting marks DH)
- the IATA code for Independence Air from DH.
- DH can be decision height, the minimum height above the runway used by an aircraft pilot for landing decisions.