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ฉ cho ching

ฉ (cho ching) is a high-class consonant named after ฉิ่ง, “cymbals”. At the start of a syllable it is /tɕʰ/, written ch in RTGS, and it does not end syllables.

See it in 61 fontsAll 44 consonants
ฉฉ ฉิ่งcho ching · cymbals
Thai name
ฉ ฉิ่ง · cho ching
Name word
ฉิ่ง, cymbals
Class
High class
At the start of a syllable
/tɕʰ/ · RTGS ch
At the end of a syllable
not used
Unicode
U+0E09 · THAI CHARACTER CHO CHING
In HTML
ฉ or ฉ
Kedmanee key
Shift + C
Pattachote key
Shift + .

How it sounds

An aspirated ch, the high-class partner of ช.

It does not close syllables in ordinary spelling. The Royal Institute’s romanisation table still gives t for the rare case.

2 other letters have the same sound at the start of a syllable: ช cho chang (low), ฌ cho choe (low).

Class and tone

With no mark, a high-class letter gives a rising tone in a live syllable and a low tone in a dead one. Mai ek gives low and mai tho falling; the other two marks are not used.

Syllables with ฉ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฉาRising
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฉะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฉากLow
Mai ekฉ่าLow
Mai thoฉ้าFalling
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

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

Words with ฉ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ฉันchanI (informal)
ฉลาดchalatclever
ฉีดchitto inject, to spray
ฉบับchabapcopy, edition
เฉลยchaloeito give the answer

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

ฉ 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.