Che (Cyrillic)
Che or Cha (Ч ч; italics: Ч ч) is a letter o the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/, like the pronunciation o ⟨ch⟩ in "chynge".
In Inglis, Che is uisually romanized as ⟨ch⟩, or sometimes as ⟨tch⟩, as in French. In linguistics it is transcribit as ⟨č⟩. Thus Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's surname (Чайковский in Roushie) mey be transcribit as Chaikovsky or Čajkovskij.
History
eeditThe name o Che in the Early Cyrillic alphabet wis чрьвь (črvĭ), meanin "worm".
In the Cyrillic numeral seestem, Che haed a value o 90.
Uisage
eeditSlavic leids
eeditIn aw Slavic leids which uise Cyrillic, except Roushie, Che represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/.
Roushie
eeditIn Roushie, Che uisually represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/. Thare is a smaa nummer o wirds whaur it represents /ʂ/ (similar tae Inglis tae ⟨sh⟩ /ʃ/ in "shape"); e.g. что, чтобы, бу́лочная.
Zhuang
eeditChe wis uised in the Latin Zhuang alphabet frae 1957 tae 1986 tae represent the fowert (fawin) tone, acause o its similarity tae the numeral 4. In 1986, it wis replaced bi the Latin letter X.
Relatit letters an ither similar characters
eeditComputin codes
eeditCharacter | Ч | ч | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAIPITAL LETTER CHE | CYRILLIC SMAA LETTER CHE | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1063 | U+0427 | 1095 | U+0447 |
UTF-8 | 208 167 | D0 A7 | 209 135 | D1 87 |
Numeric chairacter reference | Ч | Ч | ч | ч |
KOI8-R an KOI8-U | 254 | FE | 222 | DE |
Code page 855 | 252 | FC | 251 | FB |
Code page 866 | 151 | 97 | 231 | E7 |
Windows-1251 | 215 | D7 | 247 | F7 |
ISO-8859-5 | 199 | C7 | 231 | E7 |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 151 | 97 | 247 | F7 |