Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: Ӂ ӂ) 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 Ж ж).
Zhe with breve is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Language | Pronunciation | Notes |
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Gagauz | /d͡ʒ/ voiced postalveolar affricate, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam" | corresponds to ⟨c⟩ in the Latin alphabet |
Romanian/Moldovan | corresponds to ⟨g⟩ before front vowels in the Latin alphabet |
Zhe with breve corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs ⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ).
Traditionally, these characters were transliterated into the International English character set as ⟨dzh⟩, as in Birobidzhan; but more recently, especially in the US, they are transliterated as ⟨j⟩, as in Azerbaijan.
Computing codes
Character | Ӂ | ӂ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1217 | U+04C1 | 1218 | U+04C2 |
UTF-8 | 211 129 | D3 81 | 211 130 | D3 82 |
Numeric character reference | Ӂ | Ӂ | ӂ | ӂ |
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