Zhe with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

, created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization

Cyrillization

A Cyrillization is a system for rendering words of a language that normally uses a writing system other than the Cyrillic alphabet into a Cyrillic alphabet. A Cyrillization scheme needs to be applied, for example, to transcribe names of German, Chinese, or American people and places for use in...

 of non-Slavic languages

Slavic languages

The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...

. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe

Zhe (Cyrillic)

Zhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "treasure".Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.-History:...

 (Ж ж Ж ж).

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

Language	Pronunciation	Notes
Gagauz Gagauz language The Gagauz language is a Turkic language, spoken by the Gagauz people, and the official language of Gagauzia, Moldova. There are two dialects, Bulgar Gagauzi and Maritime Gagauzi. This is a different language from Balkan Gagauz Turkish....	/d͡ʒ/ voiced postalveolar affricate Voiced postalveolar affricate The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dZ⟩... , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam"	corresponds to ⟨c⟩ in the Latin alphabet Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova... /Moldovan Moldovan language Moldovan is one of the names of the Romanian language as spoken in the Republic of Moldova, where it is official. The spoken language of Moldova is closer to the dialects of Romanian spoken in northeastern Romania, and the two countries share the same literary standard...	/d͡ʒ/ voiced postalveolar affricate Voiced postalveolar affricate The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dZ⟩... , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam"	corresponds to ⟨g⟩ before front vowels in the Latin alphabet Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

Zhe with breve corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs

Digraph (orthography)

A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used to write one phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined...

 ⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender , Che with vertical stroke , Dzhe

Dzhe

Dzhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump"...

 (Џ џ), Khakassian Che

Khakassian Che

Khakassian Che is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che .Khakassian Che is used in the alphabet of the Khakas language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump".Khakassian Che corresponds in other...

 , Zhe with diaeresis

Zhe with diaeresis

Zhe with diaeresis is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe .Zhe with diaeresis is used in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam".Zhe with diaeresis...

 , or Zhje

Zhje

Zhje or Zhe with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe .Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dungan, Kalmyk, Tatar and Turkmen languages....

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Computing codes

character	Ӂ		ӂ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	1217	04C1	1218	04C2
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	211 129	D3 81	211 130	D3 82
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...	Ӂ	Ӂ	ӂ	ӂ

External links

• Gagauz language, alphabet and pronunciation
• Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet and pronunciation