The or Es with Descender (Ҫ ҫ; italics:
''Ҫ ҫ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script. The name ''the'' is pronounced , like the pronunciation of in "theft". In
Unicode, this letter is called "Es with descender".
[ In Chuvashia, 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
The (; Polish: , "little tail", diminutive of ) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in several European languages, and directly under a vowel in several Native American languages. It i ...
, 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 and Chuvash languages.][
* In Bashkir it represents the voiceless dental fricative .
* In Chuvash it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative .
It is usually ]romanized
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...
as 'ś', '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, classically pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative [], but sounding like [] in Byzantine Greek, which influenced East Slavic languages the most
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References