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rough breath·ing

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  1. rough breathingnoun

    The sound equivalent to an initial "h" before a vowel or an "r" in Ancient Greek.

  2. rough breathingnoun

    The mark used to indicate the occurrence of the sound.

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  1. Rough breathing

    In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing (Ancient Greek: δασὺ πνεῦμα, romanized: dasỳ pneûma or δασεῖα daseîa; Latin: spīritus asper) character is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an /h/ sound before a vowel, diphthong, or after rho. It remained in the polytonic orthography even after the Hellenistic period, when the sound disappeared from the Greek language. In the monotonic orthography of Modern Greek phonology, in use since 1982, it is not used at all. The absence of an /h/ sound is marked by the smooth breathing. The character, or those with similar shape such as U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA, have also been used for a similar sound by Thomas Wade (and others) in the Wade–Giles system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese. Herbert Giles and others have used a left (opening) curved single quotation mark for the same purpose; the apostrophe, backtick, and visually similar characters are often seen as well.

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  1. Rough breathing

    In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing, is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho. It remained in the polytonic orthography even after the Hellenistic period, when the sound disappeared from the Greek language. In modern monotonic orthography, that is after 1982, it has been dropped. The absence of an sound is marked by the smooth breathing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rough breathing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rough breathing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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