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Cyrillic letter Tse
Cyrillic letter Tse - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Cyrillic numerals: 900
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0426
minuscule: U+0446
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
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ
Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ    
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Tse or Ce, (Ц, ц) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks somewhat like U with square corners and a "pig tail" on the bottom right. It represents a voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/, like the ts in "cats."

It is the 23rd letter of the Russian alphabet, and is thought to have come from the Hebrew letter Tsadi (צ) (Arabic: Ṣād ص‎), via the Glagolitic letter Tsi (GlagolitsaTsi.gif).

Usage in Russian

It is used both in native Slavic words and borrowed words: as a match for the Latin <C> in words of Latin origin, for example цирк (circus), центр (center); and for the German <Z> in words borrowed from German, for example плац (Platz), цинк (Zink).

Russian words starting with ц, such as tsar, are rare, and very few of them are of Slavic origin.

A notable rule of Russian orthography is that <ц> is seldom followed by 'ы', with the exception of the ending -ы of the plural number (танец–танцы) and some declensions (девица–девицы). The very few words with цы inside or at the beginning are learned by school children by heart: цыган, цыкать, цыплёнок, цыпочки, цып-цып, цыц. Also, there are some obsolete usages, seen in old texts, such as цынга (цинга), цыновка (циновка), панцырь (панцирь) etc.

Transliteration

A regular transliteration of ц into English is <ts>. However, in proper names (personal names, toponyms, etc.) and titles it may also be rendered as <c> (which signifies the sound in Serbian, Czech, Hungarian etc.), <z> (which signifies the sound in Italian), <cz> or <tz>.

See also


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