Tshe
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| Cyrillic letter Tshe | ||||||
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| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Ѓ | Д |
| Ђ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | 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 | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ҕ | Ӗ |
| Ғ | Ӷ | Ӏ | Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ | Ҙ |
| Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӣ | Ӥ | Ҋ | Ҡ | Қ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ӄ | Ӆ | Ӎ | Ң | Ҥ |
| Ӊ | Ӈ | Ө | Ӫ | Ӧ | Ҧ | Ҏ |
| Ҫ | Ҷ | Ҹ | Ӵ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӌ |
| Ҩ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҭ | Ҵ | Ӳ | Ӯ |
| Ү | Ұ | Ӱ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | |
| 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.
