Cyrillic letter 'The'
Phonetic usage:	[?], [?]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
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Non-Slavic letters
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Archaic letters
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs
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The (? ?; italics: ? ?) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The name the is pronounced [], like the pronunciation of ⟨the⟩ in "theft". In Unicode, this letter is called "Es with descender".^[1] In Chuvashia, it looks identical to the Latin letter C with cedilla (Ç ç Ç ç). Occasionally it also has the hook diacritic curved rightward like an ogonek, as in the SVG image shown in the sidebar. In many fonts, the character hooks to the left.^[1]

The is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir and Chuvash languages.^[1]

• In Bashkir it represents the voiceless dental fricative /?/.
• In Chuvash it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /?/.

It is usually romanized as '?', '?', or 'þ'.

Computing codes

See also

• ? ? : Cyrillic letter Es
• ? ? : Cyrillic letter Fita, which represents the Greek letter theta, pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative (/?/)
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

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