Che (Cyrillic)

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Cyrillic letter Che
Cyrillic numerals: 90
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0427
minuscule: U+0447
Cyrillic alphabet
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	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	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙗ
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Che or Cha (Ч, ч, italics: Ч, ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the affricate /t͡ɕ/ (very similar to ch /t͡ʃ/ in "change"). In Russian there is a small number of words where che is pronounces as /ʂ/ (similar to English to sh /ʃ/ in "shape"). Some are stable (что, чтобы), for some there is no agreement (булочная: бу́ло[чн]ая бу́ло[шн]ая or бу́ло[чн]ая).

It is usually romanised in English as ch, or sometimes as tch, as in French. In linguistics it is transcribed as č. This is Pyotr Chaikovsky's surname (or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайковский) may be transcribed as Čajkovskij.

[edit] Zhuang

Ч was used in Zhuang's Latin alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent the fourth (falling) tone, because of its similarity to the numeral 4. In 1986, it was replaced by X.

[edit] See also

• З з
• Ƽ ƽ
• Ƅ ƅ
• Ꚇ ꚇ
• Ç

[edit] External links

• Ч (кириллица) (Russian)]

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