Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics:
''Ӝ ӝ'') 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 c ...
.
[ Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ''Ж ж'').
Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the ]Udmurt language
Udmurt is a Permic language spoken by the Udmurt people who are native to Udmurtia. As a Uralic language, it is distantly related to languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Mansi, Khanty, and Hungarian. The Udmurt language is co-official with Ru ...
,voiced postalveolar affricate
The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic ...
, like the pronunciation of in "jam".[''Алатырев В. И.']
Краткий грамматический очерк удмуртского языка
en, V. I. Alatyrev, A brief grammatical sketch of the Udmurt language It is usually romanized as ⟨dž⟩.
Zhe with diaeresis corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs or , or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke
Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Che (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ''Ч ч'').
Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri l ...
(Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (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.
Z ...
(Ӂ ӂ), or Zhje
Zhje or Zhe with descender (Җ җ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) with an addition of a descender on its right leg.
Zhje is used in the alphabets of the D ...
(Җ җ).
Computing codes
See also
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU ...
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