Che (Cyrillic)
| Che (чрьвь) | |
|---|---|
| Ч ч | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic |
| Sound values | [tʃ], [tʃʰ], [tɕʰ], [tʂ], [tɕ] |
| In Unicode | U+0427, U+0447 |
| History | |
| Transliterations | Ch ch, Č č |
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 90, 60† (Cyrillic numerals) |
Che (Ч ч; italics: Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/, like the ⟨tch⟩ in "switch" or ⟨ch⟩ in "choice".
In English, it is romanized typically as ⟨ch⟩ but sometimes as ⟨tch⟩, like in French. In German, it can be transcribed as ⟨tsch⟩. In Slavic languages using the Latin Alphabet, it is transcribed as ⟨č⟩ so "Tchaikovsky" (Чайковский in Russian) may be transcribed as Chaykovskiy or Čajkovskij.