Tse (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Tse | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 900 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0426 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0446 | ||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ѓ |
| Ђ | 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 | Ӷ |
| Ҕ | Ӗ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ |
| Ҙ | Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӥ | Ӣ | Ӏ | Ҋ |
| Қ | Ҟ | Ҡ | Ӄ | Ҝ | Ӆ | Ӎ |
| Ҥ | Ң | Ӊ | Ӈ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ |
| Ҩ | Ҧ | Ҏ | Ҫ | Ҭ | Ӳ | Ӱ |
| Ӯ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҵ | Ӵ |
| Ҷ | Ӌ | Ҹ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | |
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | |||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
Tse (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 /ʦ/, 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:Tsad ص), via the Glagolitic letter Tsi: 
[edit] 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 almost none 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, цыпленок, цыпочки, цып-цып, цыц. Also, there are some obsolete usages, seen in old texts, such as цынга (цинга), цыновка (циновка), панцырь (панцирь) etc.
[edit] 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, z, cz or tz.
