Cyrillic letter Tse
Cyrillic numerals: 900
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0426
minuscule: U+0446
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ѓ
Ђ	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	Ӷ
Ҕ	Ӗ	Ҽ	Ҿ	Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ
Ҙ	Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӥ	Ӣ	Ӏ	Ҋ
Қ	Ҟ	Ҡ	Ӄ	Ҝ	Ӆ	Ӎ
Ҥ	Ң	Ӊ	Ӈ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ
Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ	Ҫ	Ҭ	Ӳ	Ӱ
Ӯ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҵ	Ӵ
Ҷ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters

Tse (Ц, ц) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. Cyrillic numerals was a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples. Capital letters or majuscules pronunciation /məˈdʒʌskyuls ˈmædʒəˌskyuls/ in the Roman alphabet A, B, C, D, Lower case (also lower-case or lowercase) minuscule, or small letters are the smaller form of letters as opposed to upper The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by A (А а is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. Ve (В в is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound /v/ Ge or He (Г г italics Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing /g/ or /ɦ/ in different languages Ge (Ґ ґ italic Ґґ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet mainly used in Ukrainian, representing the De (Д д italics Д д) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Gje (Ѓ ѓ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language to represent / ɟ / or / ʥ / Dje, or Djerv (Ђ ђ is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the sound /ʥ/ a Voiced alveolo-palatal For the Ukrainian alphabet letter Ye (Є є see Ukrainian Ye. Ye with grave ( Majuscule: Ѐ, minuscule: ѐ) is a Cyrillic character representing a stressed variant of regular letter е. Yo (Ё ё is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented in 1783 by Yekaterina Dashkova, and first used among others in 1797 by the Russian Ye (Є є is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in Ukrainian and Rusyn languages to represent the iotated vowel sound /je/ Zhe (Ж ж is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the Voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ ( listen) similar to the s Ze (З з is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/ Dze (Ѕ ѕ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used to represent the sound /dz/ in the Macedonian alphabet. I or Y (И и italics И, и) is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets representing typically /i/ (in Old Slavonic I with grave ( Majuscule: Ѝ, minuscule: ѝ) is a character representing a stressed variant of regular letter ‹и› in some variants of the I (І і (also called dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the orthographies of the Belarusian, Kazakh and Yi (Ї ї is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian and Rusyn languages Je (Ј ј is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages Ka (К к is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is derived from the Greek letter kappa (Κ κ El (Л л is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /l/ unless it comes before a palatalizing vowel when it represents /lʲ/ except in Serbian The Cyrillic letter lje (Љ љ was originally a ligature of Л and Ь and represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/ a sound similar (but not equal Em (М м is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing a Bilabial nasal consonant /m/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel when it represents En (Н н is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the consonant /n/ unless followed by ь or any of the Palatalizing vowels when it represents /nʲ/ The Cyrillic letter Nje (Њ њ is a Ligature of Н and Ь. It is used in Macedonian and Serbian, where it represents O (О о is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/ word-initially and after hard consonants Pe (П п (formerly referred to by the mnemonic name pokoy) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /p/ unless followed Er (Р р is the eighteenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was developed from the Greek letter Rho. Es (С с is the eighteenth letter in the Bulgarian the nineteenth letter in the Russian and the twenty-first letter in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Te (Т т italics Т, т) is the letter in the Cyrillic alphabet corresponding to T in the Latin alphabet Tshe (Ћ ћ is the 23rd letter in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Kje (Ќ ќ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language. U (У у is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/ after non-palatalized (hard consonants Short U (Ў ў is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. Ef (Ф ф is the twenty-second letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Kha, (Х х is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the Voiceless velar fricative /x/ in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian Che or Cha (Ч ч italics Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Dzhe (Џ џ is a letter of Vuk Karadžić 's Cyrillic alphabet reform used in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian to represent a Voiced Sha (Ш ш italics Ш ш) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant sound /ʃ/ or /ʂ/ Shcha or Shta (Щ щ italics Щ щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, historically representing The letter Yer or Jer ( Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак znak in the modern Yery or Yeru (Ы ы usually called ы in modern Russian) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. The soft sign (Ь ь is a symbol in the Cyrillic alphabet. In the Old Slavic language, it represented a short -like vowel but in modern Slavic Cyrillic writing For the letter E (Е е of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian alphabets see Ye (Cyrillic Yu (Ю ю is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ju/ (a so-called iotated vowel or /u/ after a palatalized consonant Ya (Я я is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ja/ (a so-called Iotated vowel) or /a/ after a palatalized consonant The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages A with breve ( Majuscule: Ӑ, minuscule: ă) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography A with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӓ, minuscule: ä) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet currently used in the Khanty, Kildin Sami Schwa ( Majuscule: Ә, minuscule: ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Schwa with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӛ, minuscule: ӛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now only used in the Khanty language. Ӕ ӕ is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Ossetic to represent the Near-open front unrounded vowel /æ/ Ghayn is also a spelling for the Arabic letter Ghain. The Cyrillic letter Ghayn, Ge stroke or Ayn (in Kazakh Ge with descender ( Majuscule: Ӷ, minuscule: ӷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Siberian Yupik in Ge with middle hook ( Majuscule: Ҕ, minuscule: ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Sakha and Abkhaz to represent Ye with Breve ( Majuscule: Ӗ, minuscule: ӗ) is a Cyrillic letter used only in Chuvash language Abkhazian Che ( Majuscule: Ҽ, minuscule: ҽ) is a letter found in the Cyrillic Alphabet. The Abkhazian Che with descender ( Majuscule: Ҿ, minuscule: ҿ) is a Cyrillic letter currently used for the Abkhazian language Zhe with breve ( Majuscule: Ӂ, minuscule: ӂ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, created by Soviet linguists for the Cyrillization The Cyrillic letter Zhe with descender or Zhje ( Majuscule: Җ, minuscule: җ) is used as a letter in the Tatar, Kalmyk and Zhe with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӝ, minuscule: ӝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used only in the Udmurt language. Ze with descender or Dhe ( Majuscule: Ҙ, minuscule: ҙ) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. Ze with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӟ, minuscule: ӟ) is a letter of Cyrillic now used in Udmurt language. Abkhazian Dze ( Majuscule: Ӡ, minuscule: ӡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhazian language. Used in the Udmurt language, I with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӥ, minuscule: ӥ) is a non-Slavic letter from the Cyrillic alphabet. I with macron ( Majuscule: Ӣ, minuscule: ӣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used in Tajik language to sound the Palatal approximant Palochka or Páločka ( Majuscule: Ӏ minuscule: ӏ Russian: па́лочка a stick is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet Short I with tail ( Majuscule: Ҋ, minuscule: ҋ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic letter Қ, қ (in Kazakh: kk Qa) is a К with a Descender. Ka with stroke ( Majuscule: Ҟ, minuscule: ҟ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent an Uvular ejective Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka (Ҡ ҡ is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. Ka with hook ( Majuscule: Ӄ, minuscule: ӄ) is a Cyrillic letter currently used in the Khanty and Chukchi language. Ka with vertical stroke ( Majuscule: Ҝ, minuscule: ҝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. El with tail ( Majuscule: Ӆ, minuscule: ӆ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used only in Klidin Sami language, located between Em with tail ( Majuscule: Ӎ, minuscule: ӎ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet only now used in Kildin Sami language. Ligature En Ge ( Majuscule: Ҥ, minuscule: ҥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the non-Slavic languages Altai, Bashkir The Cyrillic letter N with descender or Ng (in Kazakh) (Ң ң is an Н with a Descender. En with tail ( Majuscule: minuscule: is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now only used in Kildin Sami language. En with hook ( Majuscule: Ӈ, minuscule: ӈ) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet used in non-Slavic languages Even, Evenki O with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӧ, minuscule ӧ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in the Kurdish, Altay, Khakass The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ө ө is an O with a horizontal line through it Oe with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӫ, minuscule: ӫ) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Khanty and Even languages Abkhazian Kha ( Majuscule: Ҩ, minuscule: ҩ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhaz language and placed Ҧ ( minuscule: ҧ) is a Cyrillic letter only used in Abkhaz. Ҏ ( minuscule: ҏ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kildin Sami to represent a voiceless trill ( IPA Es with descender or The (not the same as the Definite article) in Bashkir ( Majuscule: Ҫ, minuscule: ҫ) is a Cyrillic Te with descender ( Majuscule: Ҭ, minuscule: ҭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz, where it represents aspirated U with double acute ( Majuscule: Ӳ, minuscule: ӳ) is used for the Chuvash language. U with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӱ, minuscule: ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet to be used for the Khakass, Mari, U with macron ( Majuscule: Ӯ, minuscule: ӯ) is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet used for the Tajik language. The Cyrillic letter Straight U (Ү ү (in Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir languages Buryat and Kalmyk langugages and many others The Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke (Ұ ұ is a straight Cyrillic У with a horizontal line through it Kha with Descender or Soft Kha ( Majuscule: Ҳ, minuscule: ҳ) is a letter of certain Cyrillic alphabets such as Abkhaz Shha or He (Һ һ is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Bashkir, Ligature Te Tse ( Majuscule: Ҵ, minuscule: ҵ) is a Cyrillic ligature used only for the Abkhaz language, located between Che with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӵ, minuscule: ӵ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Udmurt language where it is the Che with descender ( Majuscule: Ҷ, minuscule: ҷ) is a letter of Tajik Cyrillic alphabet to represent the Affricate /ʤ/ Khakassian Che ( Majuscule: Ӌ, minuscule ӌ) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet only now used in Khakas language. Che with vertical stroke ( Majuscule: Ҹ, minuscule: ҹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. Yery with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӹ, minuscule: ӹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used for writing the Mari language. The semisoft sign ( Majuscule: Ҍ, minuscule: ҍ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used only in Kildin Sami, indicating E with diaeresis ( Majuscule: Ӭ, minuscule: ӭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet currently used in Kildin Sami. The original Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century to write the Old Church Slavonic Liturgical The letter koppa in the Early Cyrillic alphabet Uk (Оу оу is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a Digraph of о and either {{unicode|ѵ}} or у Omega,, is a letter used in the Early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega, Ω ω Broad On (majuscule Ѻ, minuscule ѻ) is a variety of the regular Cyrillic letter "On" (О о used in Church Slavonic: italics. IPA is used to make sure that old Cyrillic is displayed properly Ya (Я я is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ja/ (a so-called Iotated vowel) or /a/ after a palatalized consonant E iotified (Ѥ ѥ is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Little Yus and Big Yus, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic Nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Psi (Ѱ ѱ is a letter in the Early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi (Ψ ψ For the acronym see FITA Fita (Ѳ ѳ is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Theta. Izhitsa ( Ѵ, ѵ; И́жица is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Izhitsa ( Ѵ, ѵ; И́жица is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Variants of the Cyrillic alphabet are used by the Writing systems of many languages especially languages used in the former Soviet Union The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by It looks somewhat like U with square corners and a "pig tail" on the bottom right. It represents a voiceless alveolar affricate /ʦ/, like the ts in "cats. The voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet "

It is the 23rd letter of the Russian alphabet, and is thought to have come from the Hebrew letter Tsadi (צ) (Arabic:Tsad ص), via the Glagolitic letter Tsi:

Usage in Russian

It is used both in native Slavic words and borrowed words: as a match for the Latin C in words of Latin origin, for example цирк (circus), центр (center); and for the German Z in words borrowed from German, for example плац (Platz), цинк (Zink). The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף-בֵּית עִבְרִי alephbet ’ivri) consists of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. Tsade (also spelled Ṣādē or Tzadi or Sadhe or Tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavic Alphabet. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.

Russian words starting with ц, such as tsar, are rare, and almost none of them are of Slavic origin. Tsar csar and tzar redirect here For other uses see Tsar (disambiguation.

A notable rule of Russian orthography is that ц is seldom followed by 'ы', with the exception of the ending -ы of the plural number (танец–танцы) and some declensions (девица–девицы). The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific Writing system to write the language Yery or Yeru (Ы ы usually called ы in modern Russian) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. Plural is a Grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the Referent in the real world In linguistics grammatical number is a Grammatical category of nouns pronouns and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" In Linguistics, declension (or declination) is the occurrence of Inflection in Nouns Pronouns and Adjectives indicating The very few words with цы inside or at the beginning are learned by school children by heart: цыган, цыкать, цыпленок, цыпочки, цып-цып, цыц. Also, there are some obsolete usages, seen in old texts, such as цынга (цинга), цыновка (циновка), панцырь (панцирь) etc.

Transliteration

A regular transliteration of ц into English is ts. However, in proper names (personal names, toponyms, etc. Toponymy refers to the scientific study of place-names ( toponyms) their origins meanings use and Typology. ) and titles it may also be rendered as c, z, cz or tz.

See Also

• C