U+091B, छ
DEVANAGARI LETTER CHA

[U+091A]
Devanagari
[U+091C]

Translingual edit

 

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰə/, /t͡ʃʰə/, /t͡sʰə/

Letter edit

(ch)

  1. A letter of the Devanagari alphabet representing a heavily aspirated consonant, ch /tʃʰ/

See also edit

Hindi edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰə/, [t͡ʃʰɐ]

Letter edit

(cha)

  1. the seventh consonant in Hindi

See also edit

Kullu Pahari edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

(ch)

  1. Used to represent the [c͡çʰ] sound in Kullui. [1]

Marathi edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (file)

Letter edit

(cha)

  1. The sixth consonant in Marathi.

Nepali edit

Nepali numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5
6
7  → 
    Cardinal: (cha)
    Ordinal: छैटौँ (chaiṭa͠u)
    Multiplier: छगुना (chagunā)

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [t͡sʰʌ]
  • Phonetic Devanagari:

Letter edit

(cha)

  1. the seventh consonant in Nepali

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ), cognate with Hindi छह (chah).

Numeral edit

(cha)

  1. six

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

(cha)

  1. third-person singular low-respect defining present of हुनु (hunu)

Newar edit

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

(cha)

  1. one

Alternative forms edit

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Numeral edit

(cha)

  1. Devanagari script form of cha (“six”)
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[2], page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।
      Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.
      Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.

Declension edit

Optionally indeclinable.

Prakrit edit

Numeral edit

(cha) (cardinal number)

  1. Devanagari script form of 𑀙

Sherpa edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

(tsha)

  1. Used to represent the [t͡sʰ] sound in Sherpa. [3]