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The is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. The name "The" is pronounced [θɛ], like the pronunciation of ⟨the⟩ in "theft". In Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

, this letter is called "Es with descender". In all its forms it looks like
Homoglyph
In typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more characters, or glyphs, with shapes that either appear identical or cannot be differentiated by quick visual inspection. This designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties....

 the Latin letter C with cedilla
Ç
is a Latin script letter, used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Ligurian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish and Zazaki alphabets. This letter also appears in Catalan, French, Friulian, Occitan and Portuguese as a variant of the letter “c”...

 (Ç ç Ç ç).

The is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir
Bashkir language
The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:...

 and Chuvash
Chuvash language
Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....

 languages.
  • In Bashkir it represents the voiceless dental fricative
    Voiceless dental fricative
    The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in thing. Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential...

     /θ/.
  • In Chuvash it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/.

Computing codes

character
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ES WITH DESCENDER
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ES WITH DESCENDER
character encoding decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode
Unicode
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1194 04AA 1195 04AB
UTF-8
UTF-8
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210 170 D2 AA 210 171 D2 AB
Numeric character reference
Numeric character reference
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