Dza (Armenian letter)

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.

Dza
Ձ ձ
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	dz tsʰ
In Unicode	U+0541, U+0571
Alphabetical position	17
History
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	80
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Gallery

Various historic fonts

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  Rounded Erkat'agir
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  Angular Erkat'agir
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  Bolorgir
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  Notrgir
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  Shghagir
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  Typographic form
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  Handwritten form

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ձ		ձ
Unicode name	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER DZA		ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER DZA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1345	U+0541	1393	U+0571
UTF-8	213 129	D5 81	213 177	D5 B1
Numeric character reference	Ձ	Ձ	ձ	ձ

See also

• Armenian alphabet
• Mesrop Mashtots
• 2
• Arabic numerals