Also known as Te Tse, CYRILLIC CAPITAL LIGATURE TE TSE
Cyrillic letter
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Language of origin
- Abkhaz
- Sound values
- / tsʼ /
- In unicode
- U+04B4, U+04B5
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Te Tse (Ҵ ҵ; italics: Ҵ ҵ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its shape comes from a ligature of the Cyrillic letters Te (Т т Т т) and Tse (Ц ц Ц ц).
Te Tse is used in the Abkhaz alphabet, where it represents the alveolar ejective affricate /tsʼ/, ordered between the digraphs Цә and Ҵә.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ҵ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.