Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: Ҹ ҹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч Ч ч).
Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri language and Altai language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump". The corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet is ⟨C c⟩. In Altai, it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/.
Che with vertical stroke corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs ⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ).
From 1958 until 1991, it was used in the Azerbaijani alphabet to represent /d͡ʒ/; in this alphabet it is found in the name of Azerbaijan: «Азәрбајҹан». The Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet and ⟨ҹ⟩ continue to be used to write Azerbaijani in Dagestan.
Computing codes
Character information| Preview | Ҹ | ҹ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTERCHE WITH VERTICAL STROKE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTERCHE WITH VERTICAL STROKE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1208 | U+04B8 | 1209 | U+04B9 |
| UTF-8 | 210 184 | D2 B8 | 210 185 | D2 B9 |
| Numeric character reference | Ҹ | Ҹ | ҹ | ҹ |
See also
References
"Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-20. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf ↩
Awde, Nicholas; Ismailov, Famil (1999). Azerbaijani-English, English-Azerbaijani Dictionary and Phrasebook. Hippocrene Books. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7818-0684-8. 978-0-7818-0684-8 ↩
AG, Compart. "Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart". compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B8. Retrieved 2019-10-30. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B8 ↩
AG, Compart. "Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart". compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B9. Retrieved 2019-10-30. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B9 ↩