Mongolian letter Cha

ᠴ can sound like ch or ts, depending on dialect. It joins traditional Mongolian words; historical Buryat writing used dotted ᡸ for a sh sound.

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What ᠴ means

Chakhar reads ch; Khalkha can read ch or ts.

Both are Mongolian varieties. Latin transliteration writes it č; the Khalkha readings roughly match the ch and ts sounds of Cyrillic Mongolian.

How did Mongolian writing develop?

The script comes through Old Uyghur from Sogdian.

Sogdian was an ancient Central Asian script. The Mongolian script took shape under Chinggis Khan in the early 13th century. Cyrillic replaced it in Mongolia in the early 1940s; traditional writing returned in the early 1990s. Its spelling reflects 17th- and early-18th-century literary Mongolian, not modern speech. Todo, Manchu, and Sibe scripts also use ᠴ.

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Mongolian Script Letters

Who writes ᠴ

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Questions people ask

Why does ᠴ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.