Te (Cyrillic)

Te т; italics: Т т) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Cyrillic letter Te
Phonetic usage:[t]
Numeric value:300
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍЙІЇ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОŌПРСС́Т
ЋЌУӮЎФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЫ
ЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃ӚВ̌
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜ
ԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣Ԑ
Ԑ̈ӠԆӢИ̃ҊӤ
И́ҚӃҠҞҜК̣
ԚӅԮԒԈӍӉ
ҢԨӇҤԊО́О̀
О̆О̂О̃ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄
Ө́Ө̆ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪС̣С̱Т̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃Ӱ
Ӱ́ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣Х̱
Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾҺҺ̈
ԦҴҶӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲԌ
ѴѶԘ
ԢԔԠԞ

It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, like the pronunciation of t in "stop".

History

The Cyrillic letter Te was derived from the Greek letter Tau τ).

The name of Te in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was тврьдо (tvrdo), meaning "hard" or "surly".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Te had a value of 300.

Form

The cursive form in Russian
The cursive form in Serbian and Macedonian

The capital Cyrillic letter Te (Т т) looks the same as the capital Latin letter T (T t) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

In italic type and cursive, the lowercase form т looks like the italic form of the lowercase Latin M m, except in Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian usage where it looks like an inverted lowercase Latin M, with a stroke above to distinguish it from the otherwise identical italic lowercase letter Sha ш, which is sometimes written with a stroke below. Compare the 5th letter pair in the 4th row with the last letter pair of the chart.

The cursive form of the capital letter Te can also be seen in the chart following the lower case letter.

In some old materials, the lowercase form т has two variants: on the Trebnik of Metropolitan Peter and the Ostrog Bible this letter has a taller variant looks like number 7 (); on some vernacular Russian publications up to the mid-19th century, this letter have been found a variant looks like turned Sha ().[1] Both of them were encoded in the Unicode Standard in June 2016 with the release of version 9.0.[2]

Usage

As used in the alphabets of various languages, Te represents the following sounds:

  • voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, like the pronunciation of t in "tick"
  • palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive /tʲ/

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.

LanguagePosition in
alphabet
Pronunciation
Belarusian20th/t/
Bulgarian19th/t/, /tʲ/
Macedonian23rd/t/
Russian20th/t/, /tʲ/
Serbian22nd/t/
Ukrainian23rd/t/, /tʲ/

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewТт
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL TECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER THREE-LEGGED TE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1058U+04221090U+04427300U+1C847301U+1C85
UTF-8208 162D0 A2209 130D1 82225 178 132E1 B2 84225 178 133E1 B2 85
Numeric character referenceТТттᲄᲄᲅᲅ
Named character referenceТт
KOI8-R and KOI8-U244F4212D4
Code page 855230E6229E5
Windows-1251210D2242F2
ISO-8859-5194C2226E2
Macintosh Cyrillic14692242F2

See also

References

  1. "Church Slavonic Typography in Unicode" (PDF). Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons. 2015. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  2. "Cyrillic Extended-C: Range: 1C80–1C8F" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 9.0. 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  • The dictionary definition of Т at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of т at Wiktionary
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