T-cedilla (majuscule: Ţ, minuscule: ţ) is a letter which is part of the Gagauz and Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, used to represent the sound /t͡s/, the voiceless alveolar affricate (like tsinbolts, or like the letter C in Slavic languages). It is written as the letter T with a cedilla below and it has both the lower-case (U+0163) and the upper-case variants (U+0162). It is also used in the Manjak and Mankanya language for /ʈ/.
The lower case is used in Semitic transliteration.[1]
This character was used in Kabyle (Berber) for the affricate /t͡s/ (now represented with a tt).
In early versions of Unicode, the Romanian letter Ț (T-comma) was considered a glyph variant of Ţ, and therefore was not present in the Unicode Standard. It is also not present in the Windows-1250 (Central Europe) code page. The letter was only added to the standard in Unicode 3.0 (1999), and some texts in Romanian still use Ţ instead.
| Preview | Ţ | ţ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA | LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 354 | U+0162 | 355 | U+0163 |
| UTF-8 | 197 162 | C5 A2 | 197 163 | C5 A3 |
| Numeric character reference | Ţ |
Ţ |
ţ |
ţ |
| Named character reference | Ţ | ţ | ||
HTML entity (HTML5 only, not supported by all browsers):
| Ţ | ţ |
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| Ţ | ţ |