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Te (Cyrillic)

Te (Т, т) is the letter in the Cyrillic alphabet corresponding to T in the Latin alphabet. It represents /t/, a voiceless dental plosive, except when followed by ь or any of the palatalizing vowels, when it represents /tʲ/.

It arose from the Greek letter Tau.

Variants

In cursive type (except Serbian and Macedonian), the lowercase form looks much like the lowercase Latin m:

т

In the Serbian and Macedonian cursive alphabets, it looks like a lowercase Latin m inverted by 180°, with a stroke above to distinguish it from the otherwise identical cursive lowercase Sha:

т (supposed look like sha with stroke above: ш̅)

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