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Che (Cyrillic)

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

Che (чрьвь)
Ч ч
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originOld Church Slavonic
Sound values[tʃ], [tʃʰ], [tɕʰ], [tʂ], [tɕ]
In UnicodeU+0427, U+0447
History
Development
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  • Ч ч
TransliterationsCh ch, Č č, Ç ç
Other
Associated numbers90, 60† (Cyrillic numerals)
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Che, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book; it depicts a stuffed animal (chuchelo)

It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/, like the ⟨tch⟩ in "switch" or ⟨ch⟩ in "choice".

In English, it is romanized typically as ⟨ch⟩ but sometimes as ⟨tch⟩, like in French. In German, it can be transcribed as ⟨tsch⟩. In Slavic languages using the Latin Alphabet, it is transcribed as ⟨č⟩ so "Tchaikovsky" (Чайковский in Russian) may be transcribed as Chaykovskiy or Čajkovskij.

Form

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Handwritten Che in Russian (that rarely resembles r)

The letter Che (Ч ч) resembles an upside-down lowercase Latin h, as well as resembling the digit 4, especially in digital or open-ended form. Cursive forms look like lowercase cursive forms of the letter R.

History

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

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Che originally did not have a value, however, by the 1300s it started to be used with the numeric value 90 as a replacement for Koppa, some varieties that preserved Koppa around this time used Che with the value 60 instead of the usual letter for it, Ksi. Nowadays, Koppa is not used anymore in any variety, and Che has fully replaced it as the letter with the numeric value 90.[1]

Usage

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Slavic languages

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Except for Russian, all Cyrillic-alphabet Slavic languages use Che to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ (the ch sound in English).[citation needed]

In Russian, Che usually represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/ (like the Mandarin pronunciation of j in pinyin). It is occasionally exceptionally pronounced as:

In China

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The 1955 version of Hanyu pinyin contained the Che for the sound [tɕ] (for which later the letter j was used),[2] apparently because of its similarity to the Bopomofo letterㄐ.[citation needed]

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.

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Computing codes

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Character information
PreviewЧч
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1063U+04271095U+0447
UTF-8208 167D0 A7209 135D1 87
Numeric character referenceЧЧчч
Named character referenceЧч
KOI8-R and KOI8-U254FE222DE
Code page 855252FC251FB
Code page 86615197231E7
Windows-1251215D7247F7
ISO-8859-5199C7231E7
Macintosh Cyrillic15197247F7

See also

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References

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Explanatory footnotes

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^† In some varieties of Western Cyrillic, Ҁ was used for 90, and Ч was used for 60 instead of Ѯ.

Citations

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  1. ↑ "Cyrillic number system". ICONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION. 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  2. ↑ "其中ч是取自俄文字母" https://www.douban.com/note/603048605/
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