Zhje or Zhe with descender (Җ җ; italics:
''Җ җ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж
''Ж ж'') with an addition of a descender on its right leg.
Usage
Zhje is used in the alphabets of the
Dungan,
[ Kalmyk,][ Tatar,][ Turkmen] and Uyghur languages.
Zhje corresponds to the digraphs or used in other Cyrillic alphabets, or to the letters Che with descender
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ). In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter ...
(Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe
Dzhe (Џ џ; italics: ''Џ џ'' or ; italics: ''Џ, џ''), also spelled dže, is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian language, Macedonian and Variety (linguistics), varieties of Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin language, Montene ...
(Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script created by Russian and later Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) by an add ...
(Ӂ ӂ), or Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ).
Computing codes
See also
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , 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+A64 ...
References
Tatar language
Cyrillic letters
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