Cyrillic letter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Che (Ч, ч) is the twenty-second letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It sounds like [tʃ]. It is transliterated into the Roman alphabet as ch in English and tch in French.
Cyrillic letter Che | |||||||
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Cyrillic alphabet | |||||||
А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Ѓ | Д | |
Ђ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З | |
Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј | |
К | Ќ | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | |
О | П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | У | |
Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш | |
Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я | |
Non-Slavic letters | |||||||
Ӑ | Ӓ | Ӕ | Ә | Ӛ | Ҕ | Ғ | |
Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ӗ | Ӂ | Җ | |
Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ | Ԇ | |
Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ | Ҟ | |
Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ | Ԉ | |
Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ | Ԣ | |
Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ҧ | Ҏ | |
Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ | Ӯ | Ӱ | |
Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ | Ӿ | Һ | |
Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ | Ҹ | Ҽ | Ҿ | |
Ъ̀ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | |
Old letters | |||||||
Ҁ | Ѻ | ОУ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ꚇ | Ѣ | |
Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | |
Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | |||
List of Cyrillic letters | |||||||
Cyrillic digraphs |
It is read as "č" for words like "switch" or "change"[1] The letter also is used for the "tch" sound.
The name for the letter "Che" appears to come from the word for "worm" or "чрьвь (črĭvĭ)"[2]
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Che has a value of 90.[3]
In every Cyrillic Slavic language except Russian, che represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/.[3]
In Russian, the che is more similar to the Mandarin Chinese Pinyin sound for "J" making the "/t͡ɕ/" sound.
In Serbian, the che makes more of a "tʂ" sound with the letter "Ћ" making a " /t͡ɕ/" sound.
Ч used to have a role for 60 instead of Ѯ.
Ҁ used to have a role as 90.
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