Ch'ari

Not to be confused with The Cyrillic letter Dze (Ѕ) or the Latin letter S.

Ch'ari (asomtavruli Ⴝ, nuskhuri ⴝ, mkhedruli ჭ, mtavruli Ჭ) is the 33rd letter of the three Georgian scripts.^[1]

In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 5000.^[2]

Ch'ari is a palato-alveolar ejective affricate ejective consonant [tʃʼ] and is pronounced as hard Chini.

Letter

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli

Stroke order

asomtavruli^[3]

nuskhuri^[4]

mkhedruli^[5]

Computer encodings

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli
U+10BD[6]	U+2D1D[7]	U+10ED[6]

Braille

mkhedruli[8]

See also

• Ch (digraph)

References

1. Machavariani, p. 136
2. Mchedlidze, (2) p. 114
3. Mchedlidze, I, p. 105
4. Mchedlidze, I, p. 107
5. Mchedlidze, I, p. 110
6. Unicode (1)
7. Unicode (2)
8. UNESCO, World Braille Usage, Third Edition, Washington, D.C. p. 45

Bibliography

• Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991–2013
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991–2013