Tshe

Tshe (Ћ ћ; italics: Ћ ћ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin alphabets, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "chew". The sound of Tshe is produced from the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ by iotation. Tshe is the 23rd letter In these alphabets. It is a traditional Serbian letter, and the only historical one in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić's reform.

Being part of the most common Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin last names, transliteration of Tshe to the 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, 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 and Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet, and also the letter with which Serbian and Bosnian word for Cyrillic (ћирилица) starts, Tshe is often used as the basis for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet.

Related letters and other similar characters

• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te
• Ђ ђ : Cyrillic letter Dje
• Ќ, ќ : Cyrillic letter Kje
• Ć ć : Latin letter C with acute
• Ħ ħ : Latin letter H with stroke

Computing codes

character	Ћ		ћ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1035	040B	1115	045B
UTF-8	208 139	D0 8B	209 155	D1 9B
Numeric character reference	Ћ	Ћ	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

External links

• The Wiktionary entry for Ћ
• The Wiktionary entry for ћ