Cha (Armenian letter)

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).

Cha
Չ չ
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	t͡ʃʰ
In Unicode	U+0549, U+0579
Alphabetical position	25
History
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	700
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.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Չ		չ
Unicode name	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER CHA		ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER CHA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1353	U+0549	1401	U+0579
UTF-8	213 137	D5 89	213 185	D5 B9
Numeric character reference	Չ	Չ	չ	չ

Gallery

Various historic fonts

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

See also

• Z (Latin)
• Č (Latin)