This letter is pronounced like an English "ch," but slightly softer (like "cheap," not "chop"). Sometimes it is transliterated as "tch" (as in Tchaikovsky). In handwriting, it looks like Чч.
Антон Павлович Чехов/Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a great Russian writer, whose short stories and plays are still highly revered today.
Of course, if you forget to type the "h" when you are looking him up, you may instead find Pavel Andreevich Chekov (Павел Андреевич Чехов), fictional navigator of the Starship Enterprise. How you transliterate can make a great difference!
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