The or Es with Descender (Ҫ ҫ; italics:
''Ҫ ҫ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. The name ''the'' is pronounced , like the pronunciation of in "theft". In
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
, this letter is called "Es with descender".
[ In Chuvashia, it looks identical to the Latin letter C with cedilla (Ç ç ''Ç ç''). Occasionally it also has the hook diacritic curved rightward like an ogonek, as in the SVG image shown in the sidebar. In many fonts, the character hooks to the left.][
The is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir and Chuvash languages.][
* In Bashkir it represents the ]voiceless dental fricative
The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in ''think''. Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is en ...
.
* In Chuvash it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ("c", plus the curl also found in its voiced counterp ...
.
It is usually romanized as 'ś', 'θ', or 'þ'.
Computing codes
See also
*С с : Cyrillic letter Es
*Ѳ ѳ : Cyrillic letter Fita, pronounced in Russian as " Ф" , which replaced it in the 1918 alphabet reform, and derived from the Greek letter theta
Theta (, ; uppercase: Θ or ; lowercase: θ or ; grc, ''thē̂ta'' ; Modern: ''thī́ta'' ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.
Gr ...
, classically pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative
The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in ''think''. Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is en ...
[], but sounding like [] in Byzantine Greek, which influenced East Slavic languages the most
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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