Cha (Indic)

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 ("Q") after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Cha
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewק
GreekϘ (Ϟ), Φ
LatinQ
CyrillicҀ, Ф
Properties
Phonemic representation/t͡ʃʰ/
IAST transliterationcha Cha
ISCII code pointB9 (185)
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