Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter Twe Phonetic usage: /tʷ/ Derived from: Greek letter Tau [1]
Twe (Ꚍ ꚍ; italics: Ꚍ ꚍ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . Its glyph is derived from a lowercase Greek Tau .[1]
Twe was used in old Abkhaz and in old Ossetian .
In Abkhaz , it represents the labialized voiceless alveolar plosive /tʷ/ , like the pronunciation of ⟨tw⟩ in "tw in".[citation needed ] It corresponds to the digraph Тә.[clarification needed ]
Character information
Preview
Ꚍ
ꚍ
Unicode name
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TWE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TWE
Encodings
decimal
hex
dec
hex
Unicode
42636
U+A68C
42637
U+A68D
UTF-8
234 154 140
EA 9A 8C
234 154 141
EA 9A 8D
Numeric character reference
Ꚍ
Ꚍ
ꚍ
ꚍ
^ a b Bgazhba, Khukhut Solomonovich (1967). Из истории письменности в Абхазии [From the History of Writing in Abkhazia ] (PDF) (in Russian). Tbilisi: Мецниереба. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2020 .