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A hexagraph (from the Greek: ἕξ, héx, "six" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of six letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. They occur in Irish orthography, and many of them can be analysed as a tetragraph followed by the vowels ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩ on either side to indicate that the neighbouring consonants are palatalized ("slender"). However, not all Irish hexagraphs are analysable that way. The hexagraph ⟨oidhea⟩, for example, represents the same sound (approximately the vowel in English "write") as the trigraph adh, and with the same effect on neighboring consonants.

English does not have hexagraphs. The six-letter sequence ⟨schsch⟩ appears in German; for example, in the name Eschscholtz (and thus is the scientific name Eschscholtzia of the California poppy). However, this is a doubling of the trigraph ⟨sch⟩ to indicate that the preceding vowel is short rather than itself being a hexagraph.

List of hexagraphs

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Irish hexagraphs

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⟨eabhai⟩ is used to write /əu̯/ (/oː/ in Ulster), e.g. breabhaid "sortie", deabhaidh "haste, skirmish", feabhais "improvement" (gen), leabhair "books", meabhair "minds".

⟨eadhai⟩ is used to write /əi̯/ (/eː/ in Ulster), e.g. feadhain "troop", Gairmleadhaigh "Gormley" (surname), ghleadhair "struck".

⟨eamhai⟩ is used to write /əu̯/, e.g. creamhaigh "garlic" (gen), sceamhaim "I bark", seamhain "semiology", sleamhain "slippery", teamhair "tor, hill".

⟨eidhea⟩ and ⟨eighea⟩ are both used to write /əi̯/ (/eː/ in Ulster), e.g. eidheann "ivy", feidheartha "penniless", leigheas "healing", deideigheanna "soft toys", deighealfaidh "will divide".

⟨oidhea⟩ and ⟨oighea⟩ are both used to write /əi̯/, e.g. oidheanna "fates", sroigheall "scourge", broigheall "cormorant", oigheann "oven", oighear "ice", poigheachán "(snail)shell".

⟨eomhai⟩ is used to write /oː/, e.g. cheomhair "foggy" (gen.).

⟨iumhai⟩ is used to write /uː/, e.g. ciumhais "edge".

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Multigraph (orthography)

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Latin-script multigraph

⟨tsch⟩) pentagraphs (five letters, as in the ⟨tzsch⟩ in "Nietzsche") hexagraphs (six letters, as Irish ⟨eomhai⟩ /oː/) List of Latin-script digraphs List

List of Latin-script letters

Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode. Trigraph Tetragraph Pentagraph Hexagraph Other Latin characters are omitted from the tables above: Subscript modifier

Heptagraph

for the pronunciation /iː/ as found in the Cois Fharraige dialect. Multigraph (orthography) Digraph (orthography) Tetragraph Pentagraph Hexagraph v t e

Pentagraph

ххьIвелтIбос ("rummage through someone else's things"). Trigraph Tetragraph Hexagraph Heptagraph "Full Definition of PENTAGRAPH". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved

Tetragraph

nnggu, nngga. Digraph (orthography) Trigraph (orthography) Pentagraph Hexagraph Heptagraph Multigraph (orthography) List of Cyrillic letters Unigraph

List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G

graphic, graphite, graphology, graphomania, graphospasm, heterograph, hexagraph, holography, homograph, isograft, logographic, micrograph, monograph,

List of Latin-script digraphs

Latin-script tetragraphs Pentagraph List of Latin-script pentagraphs Hexagraph Heptagraph List of Latin letters List of Cyrillic digraphs Chubb, Ray