Da, Ta, or T’a (majuscule: Դ; minuscule: դ; Armenian: դա) is the fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar plosive (/d/) in Eastern Armenian and the aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive (/tʰ/) in Western Armenian. It is typically romanized with the letter D.[1] It was part of the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE. In the Armenian numeral system, it has a value of 4.[2]
The capital form of this letter, crossed with two horizontal lines, forms the Armenian dram sign.
Character codes
Preview | Դ | դ | ||
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Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER DA | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER DA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1332 | U+0534 | 1380 | U+0564 |
UTF-8 | 212 180 | D4 B4 | 213 164 | D5 A4 |
Numeric character reference | Դ |
Դ |
դ |
դ |
Gallery

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Rounded erkat'agir
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Angular erkat'agir
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Typographic form
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Handwritten form
References
- ^ "Transliteration of Armenian" (PDF).
- ^ "Numbers in Eastern Armenian". Omniglot.com.
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