The (Cyrillic) Explained

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 (the) in "theft". In Unicode, this letter is called "Es with descender". In Chuvash, 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, as in the SVG image shown in the sidebar. In many fonts, the character hooks to the left.

• In Bashkir, it represents the voiceless dental fricative pronounced as //θ// (th as in thin).
• In Chuvash, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative pronounced as //ɕ// (somewhat like sh as in ship).
• In Enets, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative pronounced as //ɕ// (pronunciation above).

It is usually romanized as 'ś', 'ş', 'θ' or 'þ'.

See also

• С с : Cyrillic letter Es
• Ѳ ѳ : Cyrillic letter Fita, pronounced in Russian as "Ф" pronounced as /[f]/, which replaced it in the 1918 alphabet reform, and derived from the Greek letter theta, classically pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative [{{IPA|θ}}], but sounding like [{{IPA|f}}] in Byzantine Greek, which influenced East Slavic languages the most
• С̈ с̈ : Cyrillic letter Es with diaresis, replaced by this letter

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF . The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 . 2010 . 42 . 2011-05-15.