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Cyrillic letter

Not to be confused with the [International Phonetic Alphabet](/source/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) letter [ħ](/source/%C4%A6) or the [Reduced Planck constant](/source/Reduced_Planck_constant)

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For the trigraph and the digraph, see [Tsh (trigraph)](/source/Tsh_(trigraph)) and [Tj (digraph)](/source/Tj_(digraph)).

"Cje" redirects here. For other uses, see [CJE (disambiguation)](/source/CJE_(disambiguation)).

"Ć (Cyrillic)" redirects here. For the Cyrillic character С́, see [Sje](/source/Sje).

Tshe (Tje) Ћ ћ Usage Writing system Cyrillic Type Alphabetic Language of origin Serbian, Montenegrin Sound values /t͡ɕ/ ⓘ History Development Ꙉ ꙉ Ћ ћ Descendants Ђ ђ This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Handwritten cursive forms of *Tshe*

**Tshe** (or **Tje**) (Ћ ћ; italics: *Ћ ћ*) is a letter of the [Cyrillic script](/source/Cyrillic_script), used in the [Serbian Cyrillic alphabet](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet) and [Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet](/source/Montenegrin_Cyrillic_alphabet), where it represents the [voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate](/source/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_affricate) /tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "**ch**ew"; however, it must not be confused with the letter [Che](/source/Che_(Cyrillic)) (Ч ч), which represents the [voiceless retroflex affricate](/source/Voiceless_retroflex_affricate) /ʈ͡ʂ/ and also exists in Serbian Cyrillic script. The sound of Tshe is produced from the [voiceless alveolar plosive](/source/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive) /t/ by [iotation](/source/Iotation). Tshe is the 23rd letter in the Serbian alphabet and 25rd letter in the Montenegrin alphabet. It was first used by [Dositej Obradović](/source/Dositej_Obradovi%C4%87) as a revival of the old Cyrillic letter [Djerv](/source/Djerv) (Ꙉ), and was later adopted in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of [Vuk Stefanović Karadžić](/source/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87).[1][2] The equivalent character to Tshe in [Gaj's Latin alphabet](/source/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet) is [Ć](/source/%C4%86).[3]

Despite being a Cyrillic letter, Tshe was also used in Latin-based [Slovincian](/source/Slovincian_language) phonetic transcriptions with the same value as in Serbian.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Being part of the [most common Serbian last names](/source/List_of_the_most_common_surnames_in_Europe#Serbia), the [transliteration](/source/Transliteration) of Tshe to the [Latin alphabet](/source/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](/source/Diacritic), as ⟨c⟩; less frequent transliterations are ⟨tj⟩, ⟨tsh⟩, ⟨ty⟩, ⟨cj⟩, ⟨cy⟩, ⟨ch⟩ (also used for [Che](/source/Che_(Cyrillic))), and ⟨tch⟩, ⟨ts⟩ (the last one in Hungarian only, but ⟨cs⟩ and ⟨ty⟩ are more common). It looks similar to the [Shha](/source/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](/source/Logo) for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

The letter is also used in the [Tat](/source/Tat_language_(Caucasus)) and [Judeo-Tat](/source/Judeo-Tat) alphabets in Azerbaijan.[4]

## Other uses

The capital Tshe has seen uses in [the English language](/source/English_language) as a symbol for the definite article *[The](/source/The)*—similarly to the [Ampersand](/source/Ampersand) & [At sign](/source/At_sign)—due to it appearing as a ligature of the [Latin script](/source/Latin_script) letters *uppercase [T](/source/T)* & *lowercase [H](/source/H)*—which are the first 2 letters of the English word *[The](/source/The).* However, unlike common symbols such as the [ampersand](/source/Ampersand) & [at sign](/source/At_sign), the use of the capital Tshe as a symbol in [English](/source/English_language) is not widely known or recognized.[5]

## Related letters and other similar characters

- Т т : [Cyrillic letter Te](/source/%D0%A2)

- Ч ч : [Cyrillic letter Che](/source/%D0%A7)

- Ђ ђ : [Cyrillic letter Dje](/source/%D0%82)

- Һ һ : [Cyrillic letter Shha](/source/%D2%BA)

- Ќ ќ : [Cyrillic letter Kje](/source/%D0%8C)

- Ć ć : [Latin letter C with acute](/source/%C4%86)

- Ħ ħ : [Latin letter H with stroke](/source/%C4%A6)

## Computing codes

Character information Preview Ћ ћ Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE Encodings decimal hex dec hex Unicode 1035 U+040B 1115 U+045B UTF-8 208 139 D0 8B 209 155 D1 9B Numeric character reference Ћ Ћ ћ ћ Named character reference Ћ ћ Code page 855 149 95 148 94 Windows-1251 142 8E 158 9E ISO-8859-5 171 AB 251 FB Macintosh Cyrillic 203 CB 204 CC ENO encoding 1035 000040B 1115 000045B

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Maretić_1-0)** Maretić, Tomislav (1899). *Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013). [*The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets*](https://books.google.com/books?id=6lQwRD2Cb8EC&pg=PA85) (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 85. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1135222963](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1135222963).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Duško Vitas; et al. (2012). [*The Serbian Language in the Digital Age*](https://books.google.com/books?id=E6aD30BIUowC&pg=PA53). Springer. p. 53. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3642307553](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3642307553).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Juhuri_4-0)** Genik Isakov. [Primer Juhuri (Judeo-Tat language). A guide to learning the Juhuri language for preschool and primary school children](https://stmegi.com/upload/iblock/907/9070555acc266095d83c687ab7b300d7.pdf). Charitable Foundation STMEGI, 2020. p. 72. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-5-7164-1077-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-5-7164-1077-0)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Greenawalt, Tyler (2013-07-14). ["Why A Symbol For 'The' Probably Won't Take Off"](https://npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/07/14/200739101/why-a-symbol-for-the-probably-wont-take-off). *NPR*. Retrieved 2023-05-22.

## External links

- The dictionary definition of [*Ћ*](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%8B) at Wiktionary

- The dictionary definition of [*ћ*](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%9B) at Wiktionary

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