U+045B "ћ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tshe Unicode Character

U+045B "ћ" Cyrillic Small Letter Tshe is a distinctive letter used primarily in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate sound similar to the "ch" in the English word "cheese." It is derived from the Cyrillic letter Te (т) with a descender, giving it a unique shape that distinguishes it from other Cyrillic characters. This letter is also employed in other languages that use Cyrillic script, such as Montenegrin and occasionally in non-Slavic languages like Uyghur, where it represents a similar phonetic value. In Unicode, it is encoded in the Cyrillic block and has a corresponding uppercase form at U+040B, which is used for proper nouns and at the beginning of sentences.

General Properties

Code Point	U+045B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Tshe
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ћ
HTML Hex Encoding	ћ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x045B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000045B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u045b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ћ" U+040B Cyrillic Capital Letter Tshe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ћ" U+040B Cyrillic Capital Letter Tshe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ћ" U+040B Cyrillic Capital Letter Tshe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ћ" U+040B Cyrillic Capital Letter Tshe
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower