Reversed Tse

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Reversed Tse
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic

Reversed Tse (Ꙡ ꙡ; italics: Ꙡ ꙡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, which was used in the Veliky Novgorod birchbark letters in place of tse ц /t͡s/ and che ч /t͡ʃ/, as the distinction between them had apparently been lost in the Old Novgorodian dialect. It is equivalent to neither.[1]

Example text

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Novgorod birch-bark letter No. 439 (turn of the 13th century):[1][2]

[моисе]ѧ [ко] спирокоу оже ти не возѧло матее капи воложи
ю со проусомо ко мне ѧзо ти олово попродале и свинеꙡе и
клепание вохо оуже мне не ехати во соужедале воскоу коупле
нꙑ :г: пи а тобе поити соуда воложи олова со ꙡетꙑри безм
ене полотенеꙡа со дова ꙡереленаѧ а коунꙑ прави сопроста

Computing codes

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Character information
Preview Ꙡ ꙡ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
REVERSED TSE 		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
REVERSED TSE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 42592 U+A660 42593 U+A661
UTF-8 234 153 160 EA 99 A0 234 153 161 EA 99 A1
Numeric character reference Ꙡ Ꙡ ꙡ ꙡ

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3563R. L2/08-020R" (PDF). unicode.org. 13 March 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Тексты" (PDF). gramoty.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 September 2023.