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Mid class consonant · letter 14 of 44

ฎ do chada

ฎ (do chada) is a mid-class consonant named after ชฎา, “headdress”. At the start of a syllable it is /d/, written d in RTGS; at the end of one it is /t̚/ (t).

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ฎฎ ชฎาdo chada · headdress
Thai name
ฎ ชฎา · do chada
Name word
ชฎา, headdress
Class
Mid class
At the start of a syllable
/d/ · RTGS d
At the end of a syllable
/t̚/ · RTGS t
Unicode
U+0E0E · THAI CHARACTER DO CHADA
In HTML
ฎ or ฎ
Kedmanee key
Shift + E
Pattachote key
Shift + Z

How it sounds

Same sound and class as ด. It is found mostly in words that came into Thai from Pali and Sanskrit.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ด do dek (mid).

Easy to mistake for ฏ to patak and ด do dek: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

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 ฎ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฎาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฎะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฎากLow
Mai ekฎ่าLow
Mai thoฎ้าFalling
Mai triฎ๊าHigh
Mai chattawaฎ๋าRising

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

Words with ฎ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
กฎkotrule
กฎหมายkotmailaw
ฎีกาdikapetition; appeal to the Supreme Court
ศาลฎีกาsan dikathe Supreme Court

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

ฎ 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.