Cha (Indic)

Cha
Cha
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseCha
TibetanCha
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiCha
DevanagariCha
Cognates
Hebrewק
GreekϘ (Ϟ), Φ
LatinQ
CyrillicҀ, Ф
Properties
Phonemic representation/t͡ʃʰ/
IAST transliterationcha Cha
ISCII code pointB9 (185)

Cha is the seventh consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, cha is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng, which is probably derived from the Aramaic letter ("Q") after having gone through the Gupta letter .