Tshe

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Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is the 23rd letter in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Depending on the letter order, it is either the fifth letter (A-B-C order, used when writing the two alphabets side-by-side and the most common one) or the 23rd letter (A-B-V-G order). It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, IPA|/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. The name "Tshe" is actually a provisional designation, as Serbian letters are not named. When spelling is required, it is pronounced as IPA|/ʨə/.

Being part of the most common Serb, Bosnian and Croatian 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 language, and also the letter with which that languages' word for Cyrillic (ћирилица/ćirilica) starts, tshe is often used as the basis for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet; for examples, see [http://www.cirilica.org/dokumenti/jezik/zavestanje.html] , [http://www.nasepismo.net] . The letter ч (sometimes, but considered incorrect by most, it is written as -чь) is used for IPA|/ʨ/ instead in the Cyrillic alphabets of other languages.

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Its HTML entities are: Ћ or Ћ for capital and ћ or ћ for small letter.

ee also

*Ć
*Te
*Dje
*Kje
*Planck's Constant