Zhe with breve

Cyrillic letter
Zhe with breve
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̄А̊А̃ӒӒ̄Ә
Ә́Ә̃ӚӔҒГ̧Г̑
Г̄ҔӺӶԀԂ
ԪԬӖЕ̄Е̃
Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜԄ
ҘӞԐԐ̈ӠԆӢ
И̃ҊӤҚӃҠҞ
ҜԞԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪԌҬ
ԎУ̃ӮӰӰ́Ӳ
ҮҮ́ҰХ̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦҴҶ
ӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

Zhe with breve 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).

Zhe with breve is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

Language Pronunciation Notes
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), Che with vertical stroke ҹ), Dzhe џ), Khakassian Che ӌ), Zhe with diaeresis ӝ), or Zhje 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
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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