Ч Cyrillic Capital Letter Che

What Ч means

Use a Cyrillic keyboard layout that includes Ч. Add a layout for the language you are writing in your device’s keyboard settings, switch to it, and type the capital letter.

What sound does Ч make?

It marks a ch-like consonant. The start of English “cheese” is a rough guide, but the sound varies by language; Russian Ч is softer than that English sound. In Latin transliteration, it may appear as č or ch, depending on the system. Those spellings represent Ч in Latin script; they are not alternate Cyrillic forms.

How does Ч fit into Cyrillic history?

Ч belongs to the Slavic writing tradition. Glagolitic, an earlier Slavic script, was used in a Byzantine mission to translate Slavic liturgical books in 863 CE. Pupils developed early Cyrillic in the First Bulgarian Empire around 893 CE. One palaeographic account connects Ч with the Glagolitic letter Cherv; early Cyrillic kept Glagolitic sound values while its visible forms were largely Greek-derived.

Ч is an ordinary spelling letter in Cyrillic text.

In a username or link, a similar-looking character changes the spelling; check the exact characters.

Part of the collection

Ї

Ukrainian Alphabet & Letters

Who writes Ч

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Don't confuse it with

3

4

Digit Four

Some fonts make Ч resemble the digit four. One is a Cyrillic letter; the other is a number.

h

Latin Small Letter H

“Upside-down h” is a visual nickname. Latin h is a different character and does not stand for Ч.

Ћ

Cyrillic Capital Letter Tshe

In Serbian, Ћ is a separate letter from Ч. Their Latin transliterations distinguish them as Ć and Č.

Related characters

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ч

Cyrillic Small Letter Che

The lowercase form of Ч: both are capital and small forms of the same Cyrillic letter.

Alphabet

33 letters

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Questions people ask

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Why does Ч show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.