  te (Ð¢&nbsp;Ñ; italics: Ð¢&nbsp;Ñ) is a letter of the cyrillic script. it commonly represents the voiceless alveolar plosive , like the pronunciation of  in "tick". ==history== the cyrillic letter te was derived from the greek letter tau (Î¤&nbsp;Ï). the name of te in the early cyrillic alphabet was  (tvrdo), meaning "hard" or "surely". in the cyrillic numeral system, te had a value of 300. ==form== thumb|350px|left|the cursive forms in serbian and macedonian 50px|thumb|left|the cursive form in russian the capital cyrillic letter te (Ð¢&nbsp;Ñ) looks the same as the capital latin letter t (t&nbsp;t) but, as with most cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase. in italic type and cursive, the lowercase form  looks like the italic form of the lowercase latin m , except in serbian and macedonian usage where it looks like an inverted lowercase latin m, with a stroke above to distinguish it from the otherwise identical italic lowercase letter sha , which is sometimes written with a stroke below. compare the 5th letter pair in the 4th row with the last letter pair of the chart. the cursive form of the capital letter te can also be seen in the chart following the lower case letter.  ==usage== as used in the alphabets of various languages, te represents the following sounds: *voiceless alveolar plosive , like the pronunciation of  in "tick" *palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive  the pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages. {|class="wikitable" ! language !! position in alphabet !! pronunciation |- | belarusian || align=center | 20th ||  |- | bulgarian || align=center | 19th || ,  |- | macedonian || align=center | 23rd ||  |- | russian|| align=center | 20th || ,  |- | serbian || align=center | 22nd ||  |- | ukrainian || align=center | 23rd || ,  |- |} ==related letters and other similar characters== *Î¤ Ï : greek letter tau *t t : latin letter t * : [[te with descender|cyrillic letter
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