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Mid class consonant · letter 8 of 44

จ cho chan

จ (cho chan) is a mid-class consonant named after จาน, “plate”. At the start of a syllable it is /tɕ/, written ch in RTGS; at the end of one it is /t̚/ (t).

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จจ จานcho chan · plate
Thai name
จ จาน · cho chan
Name word
จาน, plate
Class
Mid class
At the start of a syllable
/tɕ/ · RTGS ch
At the end of a syllable
/t̚/ · RTGS t
Unicode
U+0E08 · THAI CHARACTER CHO CHAN
In HTML
จ or จ
Kedmanee key
0
Pattachote key
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How it sounds

An unaspirated ch, between the j of “jam” and the ch of “chin”. RTGS writes ch for it and for the aspirated ฉ and ช alike; other systems write j or c to keep them apart.

Class and tone

Mid-class letters are the only ones that take all four tone marks. With no mark, a live syllable has the mid tone and a dead one the low tone; mai ek gives low, mai tho falling, mai tri high and mai chattawa rising.

Syllables with จ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)จาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelจะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelจากLow
Mai ekจ่าLow
Mai thoจ้าFalling
Mai triจ๊าHigh
Mai chattawaจ๋าRising

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with จ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ใจchaiheart, mind
จริงchingtrue, real
เจ็ดchetseven
จีนchinChina, Chinese
ตรวจtruatto check

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

จ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.