Cha, or Čʼa (majuscule: Չ; minuscule: չ; Armenian: չա) is the twenty-fifth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiceless postalveolar aspirated fricative (/t͡ʃʰ/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 700.[1] Its shape in capital form is visually similar to one other Armenian letter, Sha (Շ). Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the Latin letter Z (z).
Computing codes
Character information
| Preview |
Չ |
չ
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| Unicode name
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ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER CHA
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ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER CHA
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| Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
dec |
hex
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| Unicode |
1353 |
U+0549 |
1401 |
U+0579
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| UTF-8 |
213 137 |
D5 89 |
213 185 |
D5 B9
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| Numeric character reference |
Չ |
Չ |
չ |
չ
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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
See also
References
External links
- Չ on Wiktionary
- չ on Wiktionary