Che (Cyrillic)
Che is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate, like the in "switch" or in "choice".
In English, it is romanized typically as but sometimes as, like in French. In German, it can be transcribed as. In Slavic languages using the Latin Alphabet, it is transcribed as so "Tchaikovsky" may be transcribed as Chaykovskiy or Čajkovskij.
Form
The letter Che resembles an upside-down lowercase Latin h, as well as resembling the digit 4, especially in digital or open-ended form. Cursive forms look like lowercase cursive forms of the letter R.History
The name of Che in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was Чрьвь, meaning "worm".In the Cyrillic numeral system, Che originally did not have a value, however, by the 1300s it started to be used with the numeric value 90 as a replacement for Koppa, some varieties that preserved Koppa around this time used Che with the value 60 instead of the usual letter for it, Ksi. Nowadays, Koppa is not used anymore in any variety, and Che has fully replaced it as the letter with the numeric value 90.
Usage
Slavic languages
Except for Russian and Serbian, all Cyrillic-alphabet Slavic languages use Che to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate .In Russian, Che usually represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . It is occasionally exceptionally pronounced as:
- the voiceless retroflex affricate , like in, or
- the voiceless retroflex fricative , like in.
In China
The 1955 version of Hanyu pinyin contained the Che for the sound , apparently because of its similarity to the Bopomofo letterㄐ.The Latin Zhuang alphabet used a modified Hindu-Arabic numeral 4, strongly resembling Che, from 1957 to 1986 to represent the fourth tone. In 1986, it was replaced by the Latin letter X.
Related letters and other similar characters
- 4 : 4 - Number that very closely resembles Che, especially in digital or open ended form
- C c : Latin letter C - the same sound in Malay, Indonesian, Italian
- Č č : Latin letter C with caron
- Ç ç : Latin letter C with cedilla - an Albanian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Turkish, and Turkmen letter
- Ĉ ĉ : Latin letter C with circumflex, used in Esperanto language
- Tx : Digraph Tx, used in Basque and Catalan.
- Ch : Digraph Ch
- Cs : Digraph Cs
- Cz : Digraph Cz
- Ҷ ҷ : Cyrillic letter Che with descender
- Ӵ ӵ : Cyrillic letter Che with diaeresis
- Ҹ ҹ : Cyrillic letter Che with vertical stroke
- Ӌ ӌ : Cyrillic letter Khakassian Che
- Ɥ ɥ : Latin letter turned H
- Վ վ : Armenian letter Vev
- Կ կ : Armenian letter Ken
- Ճ ճ : Armenian letter Che