Dza (Eastern) or Tsa (Western) (majuscule: Ձ; minuscule: ձ; Armenian: ձա) is the seventeenth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar affricate (/d͡z/) in Eastern and the voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate (/t͡sʰ/) Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 80.[1] Its shape in capital form similar to the Arabic numeral 2.
Gallery
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Rounded Erkat'agir
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Angular Erkt'agir
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Bolorgir
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Nortrgir
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Shghagir
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Typographic form
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Handwritten form
Computing codes
Character information
| Preview |
Ձ |
ձ
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| Unicode name
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ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER DZA
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ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER DZA
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| Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
dec |
hex
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| Unicode |
1345 |
U+0541 |
1393 |
U+0571
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| UTF-8 |
213 129 |
D5 81 |
213 177 |
D5 B1
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| Numeric character reference |
Ձ |
Ձ |
ձ |
ձ
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See also
References
External links
- Ձ on Wiktionary
- ձ on Wiktionary