Zhje

Cyrillic letter Zhje
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̄А̊А̃ӒӒ̄Ә
Ә́Ә̃ӚӔҒГ̧Г̑
Г̄ҔӺӶԀԂꚂ
ꚀꚈԪԬӖЕ̄Е̃
Ё̄Є̈ӁҖꚄӜԄ
ҘӞԐԐ̈ӠԆӢ
И̃ҊӤҚӃҠҞ
ҜԞԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪԌꚐҬꚊ
ꚌԎУ̃ӮӰӰ́Ӳ
ҮҮ́ҰХ̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦꚔҴꚎҶ
ӴӋҸꚒꚖꚆҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ꙀꙂꙄꙆꙈҀѺ
ОУꙊѠѼꙌѾꙎ
ѢꙐꙒꙔꙖѤѦ
ꙘѪꙚѨꙜѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶꙞꙠꙢ
ꙤꙦꙨꙪꙬꙮꚘ
Ꚛ

Zhje or Zhe with descender (Җ җ; italics: Җ җ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж).

Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dungan,[1] Kalmyk,[2] Tatar[3] and Turkmen[4] languages.

Language Position in alphabet Pronunciation[note 1] Romanization[note 2]
Dungan 10th /tʂ/ voiceless retroflex affricate
/tɕ/ voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate 		zh, ⱬ
Kalmyk 11th /dʒ/ voiced postalveolar affricate j, dzh
Tatar 10th /dʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
/ʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal fricative 		c
Turkmen 9th /dʒ/ voiced postalveolar affricate j
  1. ↑ See the linked article for a description of the pronunciation.
  2. ↑ Bold face indicates the equivalent letter in the official Latin alphabet for the language.

Zhje corresponds to the digraphs ⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩ used in other Cyrillic alphabets, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), or Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ).

The letter can potentially be used in Bulgarian to represent /ʒd/, or act as a voiced version of Щ (that represents /ʃt/ as opposed to /ɕɕ/ or /ʃt͡ʃ/ in Bulgarian), replacing the digraph ⟨жд⟩. An example is the Bulgarian word for birth: "раждане" (razhdane) would become "раҗане".

Computing codes

Character Җ җ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ZHE WITH DESCENDER 		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ZHE WITH DESCENDER
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1174 U+0496 1175 U+0497
UTF-8 210 150 D2 96 210 151 D2 97
Numeric character reference Җ Җ җ җ

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ager, Simon (ed.). "Dungan (хуэйзў йүян)". Omniglot: writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  2. ↑ Ager, Simon (ed.). "Kalmyk (Хальмг келн)". Omniglot: writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  3. ↑ Ager, Simon (ed.). "Tatar (tatarça / татарча / تاتارچا)". Omniglot: writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  4. ↑ Ager, Simon (ed.). "Turkmen (Türkmen dili / Түркмен дили)". Omniglot: writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-04-29.


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