Twe

For other uses, see TWE (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Tau.

Twe (Ꚍ ꚍ; italics: Ꚍ ꚍ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its glyph is derived from a lowercase Greek Tau.^[1]

Twe
Ꚍ ꚍ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/tʷ/
History
Development	Τ τ[1] Ꚍ ꚍ
Sisters	T t, Т т
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Twe was used in old Abkhaz and in old Ossetian.

Usage

In Abkhaz, it represents the labialized voiceless alveolar plosive /tʷ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨tw⟩ in "twin".^{[citation needed]} It corresponds to the digraph Тә in Cyrillic.

Computing codes

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

See also

• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te
• Ʈ ʈ : Latin letter T with retroflex hook
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode