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Cyrillic letter Tshe
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+040B
minuscule: U+045B
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is the 23rd letter in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Depending on the letter order, it is either the fifth letter (A-B-C order, used when writing the two alphabets side-by-side and the most common one) or the 23rd letter (A-B-V-G order). It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, /tɕ/, 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 /tɕə/.

Being part of the most common Serb, Bosnian and Croatian last names, transliteration of tshe to the Latin 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 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 that languages' word for Cyrillic (ћирилица/ćirilica) starts, tshe is often used as the basis for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet; for examples, see [1], [2]. The letter ч (sometimes, but considered incorrect by most, it is written as -чь) is used for /t͡ɕ/ instead in the Cyrillic alphabets of other languages.

The letter <ћ> is also used to transliterate the Esperanto letter h.

[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

[edit] See also

• Ć
• Te
• Dje
• Kje
• Ħ
• Planck's Constant