The sound of Tshe is produced from the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ by iotation.

It was first used by Dositej Obradović as a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ), and was later adopted in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.

[1][2] The equivalent character to Tshe in Gaj's Latin alphabet is Ć.

[3] Despite being a Cyrillic letter, Tshe was also used in Latin-based Slovincian phonetic transcriptions with the same value as in Serbian.

[citation needed] The capital Tshe has seen uses in the English language as a symbol for the definite article The—similarly to the Ampersand & At sign—due to it appearing as a ligature of the Latin script letters uppercase T & lowercase H—which are the first 2 letters of the English word The.