Kranditri Classification/Ц

Tse (Ц, ц) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/, like the pronunciation of ⟨zz⟩ in “pizza.” In the standard Iron dialect of Ossetic, it represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative /s/. In other dialects, including Digoron, it has the same value as in Russian. In English, Tse is commonly romanized as ⟨ts⟩. However, in proper names (personal names, toponyms, etc.) and titles it may also be rendered as ⟨c⟩ (which signifies the sound in Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Hungarian etc.), ⟨z⟩ (which signifies the sound in Italian and German), ⟨cz⟩ or ⟨tz⟩. Its equivalent in the modern Romanian Latin alphabet is ⟨ț⟩.

Tse is thought to have come from the Hebrew letter Ṣade ⟨צ⟩, via the Glagolitic letter Tsi. The name of Tse in the Early Cyrillic alphabet is ци (tsi). New Church Slavonic and Russian spelling of the name is цы. In Ukrainian and Belorussian its spelling is tse (це and цэ respectively). In the Cyrillic numeral system, Tse has a value of 900.