Cha (Indic)
Letter "Cha" in Indic scripts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Ca (Indic).
Cha is the seventh consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, cha is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter , which is probably derived from the Aramaic letter
("Q") after having gone through the Gupta letter
.
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Quick Facts Example glyphs, Bengali–Assamese ...
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tibetan | ![]() |
Thai | ฉ |
Malayalam | ഛ |
Sinhala | ඡ |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ק |
Greek | Ϙ (Ϟ), Φ |
Latin | Q |
Cyrillic | Ҁ, Ф |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /t͡ʃʰ/ |
IAST transliteration | cha Cha |
ISCII code point | B9 (185) |
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