Tshe

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Cyrillic letter Tshe
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Ѓ	Д
Ђ	Е	Ё	Є	Ж	З	Ѕ
И	І	Ї	Й	Ј	К	Ќ
Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О	П
Р	С	Т	Ћ	У	Ў	Ф
Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш	Щ	Ъ
Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic Letters
Ӑ	Ә	Ӕ	Ҕ	Ӗ	Ғ	Ӏ
Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӣ
Ӥ	Ҡ	Қ	Ҟ	Ҝ	Ң	Ҥ
Ө	Ӧ	Ҧ	Ҫ	Ҷ	Ҹ	Ӵ
Ҽ	Ҿ	Ҩ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҭ	Ҵ
Ӳ	Ӯ	Ү	Ұ	Ӱ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is the 23rd letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, /ʨ/, the sound produced in Serbian from a voiceless alveolar plosive by iotation. It is a traditional Serbian letter, and the only historical one in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić's reform. The name Tshe is actually a provisional designation, as Serbian letters are not named. When spelling is required, it is pronounced as /ʨə/.

Being part of the most common Serbian last name ending, transliteration of tshe to the Latin alphabet is very important; however, there are many ways to transliterate it. Today, most often it is transliterated ć, as per the Croatian/Serbian Latin alphabet) or, without the diacritic, as c; less frequent transliterations are tj, ty, cj, cy, ch (also used for che) and tch.

As it is one of the letters unique to the Serbian language, and also the letter with which the Serbian word for Cyrillic (ћирилица) starts, tshe is often used as the basis for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet; for examples, see [1], [2].

[edit] Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1035	040b	002013	0000010000001011
	Small	1115	045b	002133	0000010001011011
ISO 8859-5	Capital	171	ab	253	0010101011
	Small	251	fb	373	0011111011
Windows 1251	Capital	142	8e	216	0010001110
	Small	158	9e	236	0010011110

Its HTML entities are: Ћ or Ћ for capital and ћ or ћ for small letter.

[edit] See also

• Te
• Dje
• Kje
• Planck's Constant