Dza (Armenian letter)
Letter in the Armenian alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Letter in the Armenian alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dza (Eastern) or Tsa (Western) (majuscule: Ձ; minuscule: ձ; Armenian: ձա) is the seventeenth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar affricate (/d͡z/) in Eastern and the voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate (/t͡sʰ/) Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 80.[1] Its shape in capital form similar to the Arabic numeral 2.
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| Dza | |
|---|---|
| Ձ ձ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Armenian script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Armenian language |
| Sound values | l |
| In Unicode | U+0541, U+0571 |
| Alphabetical position | 17 Numerical value: 80 |
| History | |
| Development |
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| Time period | 405 to present |
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 80 |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
| Preview | Ձ | ձ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER DZA | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER DZA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1345 | U+0541 | 1393 | U+0571 |
| UTF-8 | 213 129 | D5 81 | 213 177 | D5 B1 |
| Numeric character reference | Ձ | Ձ | ձ | ձ |
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