ཆ

See also: ཆཱོ, ཆུ, ཚི, ཚ, and ཚོ

ཆ U+0F46, ཆ TIBETAN LETTER CHA ← ཅ [U+0F45] Tibetan ཇ → [U+0F47]

Translingual

Letter

ཆ

1. Tibetan letter cha

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰə/, [t͡ʃʰʌ]

Letter

ཆ (cha)

1. The ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰɑ˥/

Etymology 1

Letter

ཆ (cha)

1. The sixth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཆ (cha)

1. pair, couple
2. fraction, part

See also

• ཡ (ya)

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰə/, [t͡ʃʰə]

Letter

ཆ (cha)

1. The sixth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰa/, [t͡ʃʰa]

Letter

ཆ (cha)

1. The twelfth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰɐ/, [t͡ɕʰɐ]

Letter

ཆ (cha)

1. The sixth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཆ (cha)

1. Generally used to mean suitability or befittance with something else.
2. pair, match
3. part
4. equal

Derived terms

• ཆ་མཉམ (cha mnyam)
• ཆ་རོགས (cha rogs)
• ཆ་ལུགས (cha lugs)

References

• Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 55

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˥˥/

Etymology 1

Letter

ཆ • (cha)

1. The sixth letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཆ • (cha)

1. pair, couple
2. part, fraction, share
3. quality, aspect, side, -ness
4. fittingness (of clothes)