Tshe
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Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is the 23rd letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, /ʨ/, 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. Name Tshe is actually a provisional designation, as Serbian letters are not named. When spelling is required, it is pronounced as /ʨə/.
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 [link], [link].
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
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