U+0549 "Չ" Armenian Capital Letter Cha Unicode Character

U+0549 "Չ" Armenian Capital Letter Cha is a letter in the Armenian alphabet, specifically representing the aspirated voiceless palatal affricate sound /t͡ʃʰ/, similar to the "ch" in the English word "cheese." It is the 25th letter of the classical Armenian alphabet and the 27th in the modern Eastern and Western Armenian alphabets, with a numerical value of 700 in the traditional Armenian numeral system. Visually, the character features a distinctive rounded top stroke with a diagonal tail, and its lowercase counterpart is "չ" (U+0579). This letter is used in written Armenian across various dialects and remains an essential component of the language's orthography for representing its unique phonetic inventory.