Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics:
''Ҹ ҹ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking cou ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч
''Ч ч'').
Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the
Azeri language
Azerbaijani () or Azeri (), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaij ...
and
Altai language, where it represents the
voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of in "jump". The corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet is . In Altai, it represents
the
voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/.
Che with vertical stroke corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the
digraphs or , or to the letters
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ),
Dzhe
Dzhe or Gea (Џ џ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian ( Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of j in “jump� ...
(Џ џ),
Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ),
Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) by an addition of a Breve.
...
(Ӂ ӂ),
Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or
Zhje (Җ җ).
From 1958 until 1991, it was used in the
Azerbaijani alphabet
The Azerbaijani alphabet ( az, Azərbaycan əlifbası, , ) has three versions which includes the Perso-Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.
North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin ...
to represent ; in this alphabet it is found in the name of
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
: «». The Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet and continue to be used to write
Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijanis
* Azerbaijani language
See also
* Azerbaijan (disambiguation)
* Azeri (disambiguation)
* Azerbaijani cuisine
* Culture of Azerbaijan
The culture of Azerbaijan ...
in
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North ...
.
Computing codes
See also
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
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Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with stroke