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Tshe (Ћ, ћ) is the 23rd letter in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and in Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet. It represents a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, , the sound produced in Serbian and in Bosnian 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 .
Being part of the most common Serbian and Bosnian 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 , , , , (also used for che), and .
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; for an example, see [http://www.cirilica.org/dokumenti/jezik/zavestanje.html].
Similar letters The letter "ħ" (upper case "Ħ") is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar. It is used in Maltese and the International Phonetic Alphabet for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant.
In physics, the reduced Planck constant is denoted by ħ, which is called "h-bar".
Code positions
See alsoĆ
Te
Dje
Kje
Ħ
Category:South Slavic languages
Category:Serbian letters
br:Ћ (lizherenn)
bg:Ћ
de:Ћ
et:Ћ
fr:Ћ
xal:Ћ үзг
it:Ћ
ka:Ћ
mk:Ћ (Кирилица)
nl:Ћ
ja:Ћ
no:Ћ
pl:Ћ
pt:Ћ
ru:Ћ (кириллица)
sl:Ћ
sr:Ћ (ћириличко)
fi:Ћ
th:Ћ
uk:Ћ
zh:Ћ
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