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| Cha | |
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| Example glyphs | |
| Bengali–Assamese | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Bengali_Letter_Cha.svg){kind=small} |
| Tibetan | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Tibetan_Cha.svg){kind=small} |
| Thai | ฉ |
| Malayalam | ഛ |
| Sinhala | ඡ |
| Ashoka Brahmi | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Brahmi_ch.svg){kind=small} |
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| 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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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 &sq=&lang=&file=File:Qoph.svg){kind=small}
("Q") after having gone through the Gupta letter &sq=&lang=&file=File:Gupta_allahabad_ch.svg){kind=small}
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