Ţ

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 ts in bolts, 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/.

Usage

The lower case is used in Semitic transliteration.^[1]

Gagauz and Dobrujan Tatar: [t͡s]

This character was used in Kabyle (Berber) for the affricate /t͡s/ (now represented with a tt).

Romanian

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.

Character encoding

Character information
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	&Tcedil;		&tcedil;