Tse (letter)
The letter in isolated form
| connected shapes | ||
|---|---|---|
| ـڅ | ـڅـ | څـ |
| from the right | both sides | to the left |
Tse ( Pashtun څې ćē ), sometimes also Tsay , Tsim or Sim (څيم ćīm ) is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet of the Pashtun language . It is derived from the Arabic letter Ḥa (ﺢ) by adding three points and occurs exclusively in the Pashtun script .
Its sound value in Pashto is mostly an unvoiced alveolar affricate ( IPA : [ts] ). The pronunciation, however, is heavily dependent on the dialect and in the north of the Pashtun language area tends towards an unvoiced alveolar fricative (IPA: [s] ). Until the Afghan orthography reform in 1936, the letter also represented the voiced alveolar affricate , when the separate letter Dze was introduced for this phoneme .
| Unicode codepoint | U + 0685 |
|---|---|
| Unicode name | Hah with three dots above |
| HTML | & # 1669; |