The or Es with Descender (Ҫ ҫ; italics:
''Ҫ ҫ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
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. The name ''the'' is pronounced , like the pronunciation of in "theft". In
Unicode
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, this letter is called "Es with descender".
[ In Chuvash, 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
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, 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, Chuvash, and Enets
* 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 most English speakers as the 'th' in ''think''. Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encount ...
(th as in thin).
* 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 counter ...
(somewhat like sh as in ship).
* In Enets, 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 counter ...
(pronunciation above).
It is usually romanized
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as 'ś', 'ş', '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 ; ''thē̂ta'' ; Modern: ''thī́ta'' ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth 𐤈. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.
Gree ...
, 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 most English speakers as the 'th' in ''think''. Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encount ...
[], but sounding like [] in Byzantine Greek, which influenced East Slavic languages the most
*С̈ с̈ : Es with diaresis, Cyrillic letter Es with diaresis, replaced by this letter
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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