Za (Armenian letter)
Za (majuscule: Զ; minuscule: զ; Armenian: զա) is the sixth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar sibilant (/z/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 6.[1] Its shape in capital form is similar to the Arabic numeral 2 and two other Armenian letters, Dza (Ձ) and Je (Ջ). Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the minuscule form of the Latin Q (q), the minuscule form of the Cyrillic letter Ԛ (ԛ), and the minuscule form of another Armenian letter, Gim (գ).
| Za | |
|---|---|
| Զ զ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Armenian script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Armenian language |
| Phonetic usage | z |
| Unicode codepoint | U+536, U+566 |
| Alphabetical position | 6 Numerical value: 6 |
| History | |
| Development |
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| Time period | 405 to present |
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 6 |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Computing codes
| Preview | Զ | զ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER ZA | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER ZA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1334 | U+0536 | 1382 | U+0566 |
| UTF-8 | 212 182 | D4 B6 | 213 166 | D5 A6 |
| Numeric character reference | Զ | Զ | զ | զ |
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See also
- Armenian alphabet
- Mesrop Mashtots
- Dza (letter)
- Q (Latin)
- Ԛ (Cyrillic)
- Gim (letter)
- Z
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