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The Cyrillic letter Fita or Thita ( majuscule Min, minuscule entwickelte) developed from the Greek theta and was used in older Russian and in Cyrillic alphabets derived from it, such as B. the Kildinsamischen from 1878, used to write originally Greek words that are originally written with theta - similar to the letter sequence th in German:

Examples:

• ариѳметика, today арифметика arifmetika , German: arithmetic
• Ѳеодоръ, today Фёдор Fjodor , German: Theodor

In the Russian-speaking world, the Fita was pronounced as f and was thus redundant to the equally pronounced Ef ( Ф ), which corresponds to the Greek Phi . Along with three other letters, it was removed from the Russian script in the Russian spelling reform of 1918 ; its function has since been taken over by the Ef. It is no longer used in any living language with Cyrillic script.

The Fita should not be confused with the letter Ө, ө , which represents a vowel in the Kazakh, Tuvinian, and Mongolian languages.

Character encoding

default		Uppercase Ѳ	Minuscule ѳ
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 0472	U + 0473
	Surname	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER FITA
UTF-8		D1 B2	D1 B3
XML / XHTML	decimal	Ѳ	ѳ
	hexadecimal	Ѳ	ѳ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ British and Foreign Bible Society (ed.): Евангеліе отъ Матѳея (на русско-лопарскомъ языкъ) . Helsinki 1878 (Translator: Arvid Genetz).