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Cyrillic letter Che
Cyrillic numerals: 90
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0427
minuscule: U+0447
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	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Che or Cha (Ч, ч, italics: Ч, ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the affricate /tʃ/ (the same sound as ch in English "change") in all Slavic languages which use Cyrillic except Russian were it stands for /t͡ɕ/. In Russian there is a small number of words this represents /ʂ/ (similar to English to sh /ʃ/ in "shape"). For some words, this pronunciation is universal (что, чтобы), for some there is variance (бу́лочная).

It is usually romanised in English as <ch>, or sometimes as <tch>, as in French. In linguistics it is transcribed as <č>. Thus Pyotr Chaikovsky's surname (or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайковский) may be transcribed as Čajkovskij.

Zhuang

<Ч> was used in Zhuang's Latin alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent the fourth (falling) tone, because of its similarity to the numeral 4. In 1986, it was replaced by <X>.

See also

• З з
• Ƽ ƽ
• Ƅ ƅ
• Ꚇ ꚇ
• Ç

External links

• Ч (кириллица) (Russian)