Che (Cyrillic)

Che or Cha ч; italics: Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Cyrillic letter Che
Numeric value:90
Phonetic usage:[tɕ], [tʃ]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄В̌ӘӘ́Ә̃ӚӔ
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖ
ӜԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣
ԐԐ̈ӠԆӢИ̃Ҋ
ӤИ́ҚӃҠҞҜ
ԞК̣ԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО́О̀О̆О̂
О̃О̄ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄Ө́
Ө̆ӪҨԤҦР̌Ҏ
ԖҪС̣С̱ԌТ̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃Ӯ
ӰӰ́ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣
Х̱Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾҺ
Һ̈ԦҴҶӴ
ӋҸҼҾ
Ы̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄Э̇
ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́Ю̄
Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ѸѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/, like tch in "switch".

In English, it is romanized most often as ch but sometimes as tch, like in French. In German, it can be transcribed as tsch. In linguistics, it is transcribed as č so "Tchaikovsky" (Чайковский in Russian) may be transcribed as Chaykovskiy or Čajkovskij.

History

The name of Che in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was чрьвь (črĭvĭ), meaning "worm".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Che had a value of 90.

Usage

Slavic languages

In all Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet, except Russian, Che represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/.

In Russian, Che usually represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/, like the Mandarin pronunciation of j in pinyin. However, in a few words, it is pronounced as /tʃ/, like in Russian: лучше.

In Russian, in a few words, it represents /ʂ/ (like English sh /ʃ/ in "shape"): Russian: что, чтобы, нарочно.

In China

The 1955 version of Hanyu pinyin contained the Che for the sound [tɕ] (for which later the letter j was used),[1] apparently because of its similarity to the Bopomofo letterㄐ.

The Latin Zhuang alphabet used a modified Hindu-Arabic numeral 4, strongly resembling Che, from 1957 to 1986 to represent the fourth (falling) tone. In 1986, it was replaced by the Latin letter X.

Computing codes

CharacterЧч
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1063U+04271095U+0447
UTF-8208 167D0 A7209 135D1 87
Numeric character referenceЧЧчч
KOI8-R and KOI8-U254FE222DE
Code page 855252FC251FB
Code page 86615197231E7
Windows-1251215D7247F7
ISO-8859-5199C7231E7
Macintosh Cyrillic15197247F7

References

  1. "其中ч是取自俄文字母" https://www.douban.com/note/603048605/
  • The dictionary definition of Ч at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of ч at Wiktionary
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