Che_(Cyrillic)

Che (Cyrillic)

Che (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter


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

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Che, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book; it depicts a stuffed animal (chuchelo)

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

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,[clarification needed] it is transcribed as č so "Tchaikovsky" (Чайковский in Russian) may be transcribed as Chaykovskiy or Čajkovskij.

Form

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.

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 /tʂ/, like in Russian: лучше. Ч/ч is also pronounced as /tʂ/ in Serbian, as the Serbian letter Ћ/ћ is used for the /t͡ɕ/ sound.

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.[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.

Computing codes

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References

Explanatory footnotes

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

Citations

  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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