{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used in three languages}} {{distinguish|text=the Latin letter Ç}} {{Infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Es with descender | image = Cyrillic letter Es with Descender.svg | imageclass = skin-invert-image | imagealt = | phonemes = [{{IPA link|θ}}], [{{IPA link|ɕ}}] | number = | fam1 = | equivalents = Th th | letter = Ҫ ҫ }}

'''The''' or '''Es with Descender''' (Ҫ&nbsp;ҫ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ҫ&nbsp;ҫ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The name ''the'' is pronounced {{ipa|[θɛ]}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|the}} in "'''the'''ft". In Unicode, this letter is called "Es with descender".<ref name=Unicode/> In Chuvash, it looks identical to the Latin letter C with cedilla (Ç&nbsp;ç&nbsp;<span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ç&nbsp;ç''</span>). Occasionally, it also has the hook diacritic curved rightward like an ogonek, as in the Scalable Vector Graphics image shown in the sidebar. In many fonts, the character hooks to the left.<ref name=Unicode/>

''The'' is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Chuvash, and Enets. * In Bashkir, it represents the voiceless dental fricative {{IPA|/θ/}} (th as in thin). * In Chuvash, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative {{IPA|/ɕ/}} (somewhat like sh as in ship), and becomes lenis {{IPA|/ɕ̬/}} when between vowels. * In Enets, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative {{IPA|/ɕ/}} (pronunciation above).

It is usually romanized as 'ś', 'ş', 'θ' or 'þ'.

==Computing codes==

{{charmap |04AA|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter<br />Es with Descender |04AB|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Es with Descender }}

==See also== *С с : Cyrillic letter Es *Ѳ ѳ : Cyrillic letter Fita, pronounced in Russian as "Ф" {{IPA|[f]}}, which replaced it in the 1918 alphabet reform, and derived from the Greek letter theta, classically pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative [{{IPA|θ}}], but sounding like [{{IPA|f}}] in Byzantine Greek, which influenced East Slavic languages the most * Т̌ т̌ : Cyrillic letter te with caron, pronounced in Wakhi Cyrillic as a voiceless dental fricative ({{IPA|/θ/}}) *С̈ с̈ : Cyrillic letter Es with diaresis, replaced by this letter *Cyrillic characters in Unicode

==References== <references> <ref name=Unicode>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf |title=Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF |work=The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 |year=2010 |page=42 |access-date=2011-05-15}}</ref> </references>

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