U+045B Cyrillic Small Letter Tshe
U+045B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+045B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Tshe (or The) (Ћ ћ; italics: Ћ ћ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "chew"; however, it must not be confused with the voiceless retroflex affricate Che (Ч ч), which represents /ʈ͡ʂ/ and which also exists in Serbian Cyrillic script. The sound of Tshe is produced from the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ by iotation. Tshe is the 23rd letter in the Serbian alphabet. It was first used by Dositej Obradović as a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ), and was later adopted in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. The equivalent character to Tshe in Gaj's Latin alphabet is Ć.
Despite being a Cyrillic letter, Tshe was also used in Latin-based Slovincian phonetic transcriptions with the same value as in Serbian.
Being part of the most common Serbian last names, the 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⟩, ⟨tsh⟩, ⟨ty⟩, ⟨cj⟩, ⟨cy⟩, ⟨ch⟩ (also used for Che), and ⟨tch⟩, ⟨ts⟩ (the last one in Hungarian only, but ⟨cs⟩ and ⟨ty⟩ are more common). It looks similar to the Shha (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 for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1115 |
UTF-8 | D1 9B |
UTF-16 | 04 5B |
UTF-32 | 00 00 04 5B |
URL-Quoted | %D1%9B |
HTML hex reference | ћ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ñ› |
HTML named entity | ћ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | FB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 9E |
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | CC |
LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrtshe |
Adobe Glyph List | afii10108 |
Adobe Glyph List | tshecyrillic |
digraph | ts |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE | |
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Cyrillic | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Cyrillic | |
Left To Right | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
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Lower | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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neutral | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
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not a number | |
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