Te (Т т; italics:Т т orТ т; italics:Т т) is a letter of theCyrillic script. It commonly represents thevoiceless dental stop/t̪/, like the pronunciation of⟨t⟩ in "tool". In most cursive writing, lowercase Te looks like the Latin lowercase m.
Normal and italic formsThe cursive form in RussianThe cursive form in Serbian and Macedonian
The capital Cyrillic letter Te (Т т)looks the same as the capitalLatin letter T (T t) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase letter, same asМ.
Initalic type andcursive, the lowercase form⟨т⟩ looks like the italic form of the lowercase Latin M⟨m⟩, except inSerbian andMacedonian usage where it looks like an inverted lowercase Latin M, with astroke above to distinguish it from the otherwise identical italic lowercase letterSha⟨ш⟩, which is sometimes written with a stroke below. Compare the 5th letter pair in the 4th row with the last letter pair of the chart.
The cursive form of the capital letter Te can also be seen in the chart following the lower case letter.
In some old materials, the lowercase form⟨т⟩ has two variants: on theTrebnik of Metropolitan Peter and theOstrog Bible this letter has a taller variant looks like number7 (ᲄ); on some vernacular Russian publications up to the mid-19th century, this letter have been found as a variant resembling a turned Sha (ᲅ).[1] Both of them were encoded in the Unicode Standard in June 2016 with the release of version 9.0.[2]
