Chini (letter)

Chini, or Chin (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli: ჩ; Mtavruli: Ჩ; ) is the 29th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 1000. Chini commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar (aspirated) affricate , like the pronunciation of in "choose". It is typically romanized with the digraphs Ch, and Ch’, or with the letters Č, Č’, and Č‘.

Letter

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See also

• Latin letter Ch
• Latin letter Č
• Cyrillic letter Che

References

Bibliography

• Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013