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| Cyrillic letter Es | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 200 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0421 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0441 | ||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
| Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
| П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
| 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 |
| Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | |
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | ОУ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙗ |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ꙟ | ||||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Es (C, с) is the eighteenth letter in the Bulgarian, the nineteenth letter in the Russian, and the twenty first letter in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It resembles the letter <C> in the Latin alphabet, being one of seven letters in the Cyrillic alphabet that share appearances with Latin alphabet letters but are pronounced in a different way (although the Latin alphabet's <C> can have a "soft" pronunciation before front vowels).
The letter C represents /s/ except when followed by a palatalizing vowel, when it represents /sʲ/ (e.g. Russian cepa [ˈsʲɛrə] 'sulfur').
Es' is derived from a variant of the letter sigma known as lunate sigma, in use in the Greek-speaking world in early medieval times, and has no connection to the C of the Latin alphabet, which is a descendant of gamma; however, many languages (for different reasons) apply the value of /s/ to the Latin letter C, especially before the vowels e and i (examples being English, French, Spanish), cf. front vowel and palatalization.
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