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Letter in the Armenian alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Za (majuscule: Զ; minuscule: զ; Armenian: զա) is the sixth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar sibilant /z/ in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of ⟨6⟩.[1] Its shape in capital form is similar to the Arabic numeral 2 and two other Armenian letters, Dza ⟨Ձ⟩ and Je ⟨Ջ⟩. Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the minuscule form of the Latin Q ⟨q⟩, the minuscule form of the Cyrillic letter Ԛ ⟨ԛ⟩, and the minuscule form of another Armenian letter, Gim ⟨գ⟩.
Za | |
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Զ զ | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Armenian script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Armenian language |
Sound values | z |
In Unicode | U+536, U+566 |
Alphabetical position | 6 Numerical value: 6 |
History | |
Development |
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Time period | 405 to present |
Other | |
Associated numbers | 6 |
Preview | Զ | զ | ||
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Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER ZA | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER ZA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1334 | U+0536 | 1382 | U+0566 |
UTF-8 | 212 182 | D4 B6 | 213 166 | D5 A6 |
Numeric character reference | Զ | Զ | զ | զ |
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