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class="infobox-label">Sound values</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiced alveolar fricative">z</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><code>U+536, U+566</code></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alphabetical position</th><td class="infobox-data">6<br /><b>Numerical value:</b> 6</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Development</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: normal"><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><b>Զ զ</b></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time period</th><td class="infobox-data">405 to present</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Associated numbers</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint selfref" style="background:#ddf; padding:0.3em 0.5em;text-align:left;line-height:1.3;">This article contains <b><a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA)</b>. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ /</span> and ⟨<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"> </span>⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Za</b> (majuscule: Զ; minuscule: զ; <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>: զա) is the sixth letter of the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian alphabet</a>. It represents the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_sibilant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar sibilant">voiced alveolar sibilant</a> /z/ in both <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Armenian" title="Eastern Armenian">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Armenian" title="Western Armenian">Western</a> varieties of <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>. Created by <a href="/wiki/Mesrop_Mashtots" title="Mesrop Mashtots">Mesrop Mashtots</a> in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of ⟨6⟩.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its shape in capital form is similar to the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_numeral" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic numeral">Arabic numeral</a> 2 and two other <a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian letters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dza_(Armenian_letter)" title="Dza (Armenian letter)">Dza</a> ⟨Ձ⟩ and <a href="/wiki/Je_(Armenian_letter)" title="Je (Armenian letter)">Je</a> ⟨Ջ⟩. Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the minuscule form of the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Q</a> ⟨q⟩, the minuscule form of the <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic letter</a> <a href="/wiki/%D4%9A" class="mw-redirect" title="Ԛ">Ԛ</a> ⟨ԛ⟩, and the minuscule form of another Armenian letter, <a href="/wiki/Gim_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gim (letter)">Gim</a> ⟨գ⟩. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Computing_codes">Computing codes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Za_(Armenian_letter)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Computing codes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable template-charmap" style="text-align:right"> <caption>Character information </caption> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center"> <th scope="row">Preview</th> <th colspan="2" style="font-size:150%">Զ</th> <th colspan="2" style="font-size:150%">զ </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1061632564">.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap tr:first-child{height:50px}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap tr:first-child th[colspan]{height:100%}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap tr:first-child th[colspan]>div{height:100%;display:flex;justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap tr:first-child th[colspan]>div>div{display:flex;flex-direction:column;padding:0 0.5em}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap tr:first-child th[colspan]>div>div>span:nth-child(2){margin:auto;padding:10px 0;font-size:150%;line-height:1}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap .smallcaps-cm{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap td:first-child{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output table.template-charmap .template-charmap-numchr td:nth-child(n/**/+2){font-size:90%;padding:2px}</style>Unicode name </th> <td colspan="2" class="smallcaps-cm">ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER ZA </td> <td colspan="2" class="smallcaps-cm">ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER ZA </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Encodings</th> <th>decimal</th> <th>hex</th> <th>dec</th> <th>hex </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></td> <td>1334</td> <td>U+0536</td> <td>1382</td> <td>U+0566 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UTF-8" title="UTF-8">UTF-8</a></td> <td>212 182</td> <td>D4 B6</td> <td>213 166</td> <td>D5 A6 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Numeric_character_reference" title="Numeric character reference">Numeric character reference</a></td> <td>&#1334;<wbr /></td> <td>&#x536;<wbr /></td> <td>&#1382;<wbr /></td> <td>&#x566;<wbr /> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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