Cha (Mongolic)

Cha is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.^{[1]: 549–551}

Mongolian language

Main articles: Mongolian script, Mongolian writing systems, and Mongolian language

Cha
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ a ᠡ e ᠢ i ᠣ o ᠤ u ᠥ ö ᠦ ü ᠧ (ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ n ᠩ ng ᠪ b ᠫ (p) ᠬ q/k ᠭ ɣ/g ᠮ m ᠯ l ᠰ s ᠱ š ᠲ t ᠳ d ᠴ č ᠵ ǰ ᠶ y ᠷ r ᠸ (w)
Mongolian script multigraphs
Galik alphabet
v t e

Letter[2]: 13, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214
č	Transliteration[note 1]
ᠴ‍	Initial
‍ᠴ‍	Medial (syllable-initial)
—	Medial (syllable-final)
(‍ᠴ)	Final[note 2]

C-V syllables[6]: 38
ča, če	či	čo, ču	čö	čü	Transliteration
ᠴᠠ	ᠴᠢ [note 3]	ᠴᠣ᠋	ᠴᠥ᠋		Alone
		ᠴᠣ [note 4]	—	ᠴᠦ [note 4]
ᠴᠠ‍	ᠴᠢ‍	ᠴᠣ‍	ᠴᠥ‍		Initial
‍ᠴᠠ‍	‍ᠴᠢ‍	‍ᠴᠣ‍			Medial
‍ᠴᠠ	‍ᠴᠢ	‍ᠴᠣ			Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /t͡ʃ/;^[10][11] Khalkha /t͡ʃʰ/, and /t͡sʰ/ (Mongolian Cyrillic ч, and ц, respectively).^{[10]: § 1.2 [12]: 2} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ч.^[6][5]
• For Buryat, a derived letter with two dots on the right ⟨ᡸ; ⟩ is used in places where č is pronounced as š.^[13]
• Derived from Old Uyghur (through early Mongolian) tsade (𐽽).^{[9]: 59 [3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [15]: 35}
• Produced with Q using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[16]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, č comes after d and before ǰ.

Clear Script

Main article: Clear Script

Xibe language

Main article: Xibe language § Alphabet

Manchu language

Main article: Manchu alphabet

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.^[5]
2. Not found in native Mongolian words.
3. As in the second person singular pronoun ᠴᠢ či (Khalkha: чи chi) 'thou' (singular 'you').^{[8]: 174 [2]: 13, 85–86}
4. As in the strengthening/intensifying (emphatic) and concessive ⟨ᠴᠤ⟩ ču/čü (Khalkha: ч ch) 'even, as for' particle,^{[8]: 203 [9]: 46} ᠴᠣ/ᠴᠣᠭᠤ čo/čoɣu (Khalkha: цоо tsoo) 'through and through, completely',^{[8]: 193, 195} or ᠴᠦ čü (Khalkha: цүү tsüü) 'spike, bolt'.^[8]: 209