Te (Cyrillic)

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

Not to be confused with the Latin letter T or the Greek letter Tau.

Cyrillic letter Te
Numeric value:	300
Phonetic usage:	[t]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О Ō П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У Ӯ Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
А́ А̀ Ӑ А̄ А̊ А̃ Ӓ Ӓ̄ В̌ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Г̧ Г̑ Г̄ Г̣ Г̌ Ҕ Ӻ Ғ̌ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚃ Ꚁ Ꚉ Д̆ Д̣ Ԫ Ԭ Д̆ Ӗ Е̄ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ӂ Җ Ꚅ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̱ З̣ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ И̃ Ҋ Ӥ И́ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ К̣ Ԛ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ О́ О̀ О̆ О̂ О̃ Ӧ Ӧ̄ Ө Ө̄ Ө́ Ө̆ Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Р̌ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ С̣ С̱ Ԍ Т̌ Т̣ Ꚑ Ҭ Ꚋ Ꚍ Ԏ У̃ Ӱ Ӱ́ Ӳ Ү Ү́ Ұ Х̣ Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ꚕ Ҵ Ꚏ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̈́ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ꙁ Ꙃ Ꙅ Ꙇ Ꙉ Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ꙋ Ѡ Ѽ Ꙍ Ѿ Ꙏ Ѣ Ꙑ Ꙓ Ꙕ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Ꙡ Ꙣ Ꙥ Ꙧ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ
List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs

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 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 (ᲄ); on some vernacular Russian publications up to the mid-19ᵗʰ century, this letter have been found a variant looks like turned Sha (ᲅ).[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.

Language	Position in alphabet	Pronunciation
Belarusian	20th	/t/
Bulgarian	19th	/t/, /tʲ/
Macedonian	23rd	/t/
Russian	20th	/t/, /tʲ/
Serbian	22nd	/t/
Ukrainian	23rd	/t/, /tʲ/

Related letters and other similar characters

• Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
• T t : Latin letter T
• Ҭ ҭ : Cyrillic letter Te with descender
• Ԏ ԏ : Cyrillic letter Komi Tje
• Ћ ћ : Cyrillic Tshe

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Т		т		ᲄ		ᲅ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL TE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER THREE-LEGGED TE
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1058	U+0422	1090	U+0442	7300	U+1C84	7301	U+1C85
UTF-8	208 162	D0 A2	209 130	D1 82	225 178 132	E1 B2 84	225 178 133	E1 B2 85
Numeric character reference	Т	Т	т	т	ᲄ	ᲄ	ᲅ	ᲅ
Named character reference	Т		т
KOI8-R and KOI8-U	244	F4	212	D4
Code page 855	230	E6	229	E5
Windows-1251	210	D2	242	F2
ISO-8859-5	194	C2	226	E2
Macintosh Cyrillic	146	92	242	F2

See also

• Macedonian cursive alphabet

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.

External links

• The dictionary definition of Т at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of т at Wiktionary