Es (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Es | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 200 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0421 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0441 | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
| Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | 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 |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
| Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ꚉ | Ӗ | Ӂ |
| Җ | Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ |
| Ԇ | Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ |
| Ԉ | Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ |
| Ԣ | Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ԥ |
| Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
| Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
| Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
| Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Es (С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".
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[edit] History
The Cyrillic letter Es is derived from a variant of the Greek letter Sigma known as lunate sigma (Ϲ ϲ), in use in the Greek-speaking world in early medieval times. It has no connection to the Latin letter C (C c), which is a descendant of the Greek letter Gamma (Γ γ); however, many languages (for different reasons) apply the value of /s/ to the Latin letter C, especially before the vowels e and i (examples being English, French, Spanish), cf. front vowel and palatalization.
The name of Es in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was слово (slovo), meaning "word" or "speech".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Es had a value of 200.
[edit] Form
The Cyrillic letter Es looks exactly like the Latin letter C, being one of six letters in the Cyrillic alphabet that share appearances with Latin alphabet letters but are pronounced in a different way.
[edit] Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, Es represents the following sounds:
- voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand"
- palatalized voiceless alveolar fricative /sʲ/
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
| Language | Position in alphabet |
Pronunciation |
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| Belarusian | 19th | /s/, /sʲ/ |
| Bulgarian | 18th | /s/, /sʲ/ |
| Macedonian | 22nd | /s/ |
| Russian | 19th | /s/, /sʲ/ |
| Serbian | 21st | /s/ |
| Ukrainian | 22nd | /s/, /sʲ/ |
[edit] Related letters and other similar characters
- Σ σ/ς : Greek letter Sigma
- S s : Latin letter S
- Ц ц : Cyrillic letter Tse
[edit] Computing codes
| character | С | с | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1057 | 0421 | 1089 | 0441 |
| UTF-8 | 208 161 | D0 A1 | 209 129 | D1 81 |
| Numeric character reference | С | С | с | с |
| CP 855 | 228 | E4 | 227 | E3 |
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 243 | F3 | 211 | D3 |
| Windows-1251 | 209 | D1 | 241 | F1 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 193 | C1 | 225 | E1 |
| Mac Cyrillic | 145 | 91 | 241 | F1 |
[edit] External links
The Wiktionary entry for С- The Wiktionary entry for с
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