Tshe

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Cyrillic letter Tshe
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ё	Є	Ж	Ѕ	З
И	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
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is 23rd letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It represents an iotated voiceless dental plosive /tc̡/. It is a traditional Serbian letter, and the only historical one in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić's reform.

Being part of the most common Serbian last name ending, transliteration of tshe to Latin alphabet is very important; however, there are a lot of ways to transliterate it. Today, most often it is transliterated as ć 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 basis for logos of various groups involved with Cyrillic alphabet; for examples see [1] (http://www.cirilica.org), [2] (http://www.nasepismo.org), [3] (http://www.nasepismo.net/cgi-bin/nasepismo.pl/cirilica_srb).

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.

See also

• Te, Dje, Kje

fi:Ћ ja:Ћ sr:Ћ (ћириличко) zh:Ћ

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