hh.

n.  a reply meaning “what?” or “huh?”

<A voice said, “Psst.”  “Hh?” said Varney.  —Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere.>

hhh.

n.  a “whispery rasp,” as by a burn victim with “the larynx and vocal chords seared, learning to talk from the gut” (Jonathan Kellerman, The Web).


n.  a sigh of relief, as in The Boy From the Basement by Susan Shaw.

HHH.

n.  an exhalation; the calm and silent moment of Buddha-nature, when “the breath is completely out” and one effortlessly experiences the moment of death (Osho, The Book of Secrets).

<And when the breath goes out ... HHH ... everything is emptied.  —Osho, The Book of Secrets.>

Hhh.

n.  the name of a character with glowing yellow eyes in the novel The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

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