| Tshe (Tje) | |
|---|---|
| Ћ ћ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Serbian |
| Sound values | /t͡ɕ/ⓘ |
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Tshe (orTje) (Ћ ћ; italics:Ћ ћ) is a letter of theCyrillic script, used only in theSerbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents thevoiceless alveolo-palatal affricate/tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of⟨ch⟩ in "chew"; however, it must not be confused with thevoiceless retroflex affricateChe (Ч ч), which represents/ʈ͡ʂ/ and which also exists in Serbian Cyrillic script. The sound of Tshe is produced from thevoiceless alveolar plosive/t/ byiotation. Tshe is the 23rd letter in the Serbian alphabet. It was first used byDositej Obradović as a revival of the old Cyrillic letterDjerv (Ꙉ), and was later adopted in the 1818 Serbian dictionary ofVuk Stefanović Karadžić.[1][2] The equivalent character to Tshe inGaj's Latin alphabet isĆ.[3]
Despite being a Cyrillic letter, Tshe was also used in Latin-basedSlovincian phonetic transcriptions with the same value as in Serbian.[citation needed]
Being part of themost common Serbian last names, thetransliteration of Tshe to theLatin alphabet is very important; however, there are many ways to transliterate it. It is typically transliterated as⟨ć⟩, as per the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet or, without thediacritic, as⟨c⟩; less frequent transliterations are⟨tj⟩,⟨tsh⟩,⟨ty⟩,⟨cj⟩,⟨cy⟩,⟨ch⟩ (also used forChe), and⟨tch⟩,⟨ts⟩ (the last one in Hungarian only, but⟨cs⟩ and⟨ty⟩ are more common). It looks similar to theShha (Һ һ) but stroked.
As it is one of the letters unique to the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, and also the first letter of the Serbian word for Cyrillic (ћирилица), Tshe is often used as the basis forlogos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet.[citation needed]
The capital Tshe has seen uses inthe English language as a symbol for the definite articleThe—similarly to theAmpersand &At sign—due to it appearing as a ligature of theLatin script lettersuppercaseT &lowercaseH—which are the first 2 letters of the English wordThe. However, unlike common symbols such as theampersand &at sign, the use of the capital Tshe as a symbol inEnglish is not widely known or recognized.[4]
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1035 | U+040B | 1115 | U+045B |
| UTF-8 | 208 139 | D0 8B | 209 155 | D1 9B |
| Numeric character reference | Ћ | Ћ | ћ | ћ |
| Named character reference | Ћ | ћ | ||
| Code page 855 | 149 | 95 | 148 | 94 |
| Windows-1251 | 142 | 8E | 158 | 9E |
| ISO-8859-5 | 171 | AB | 251 | FB |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 203 | CB | 204 | CC |
| ENO encoding | 1035 | 000040B | 1115 | 000045B |
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