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Zhje or Zhe with descender 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...

. 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).

Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dungan

Dungan language

The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:...

, Kalmyk

Kalmyk language

The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family...

, Tatar

Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

and Turkmen

Turkmen language

Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan...

languages.

Language	PronunciationSee the linked article for a description of the pronunciation.	Romanization Romanization In linguistics, romanization or latinization is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman script, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system . Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written... Bold face indicates the equivalent letter in the official Latin alphabet for the language.
Dungan Dungan language The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:...	/tʂ/ voiceless retroflex affricate Voiceless retroflex affricate The voiceless retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are , sometimes simplified to , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ts`.... /tɕ/ voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate	zh
Kalmyk Kalmyk language The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family...	/dʒ/ voiced postalveolar fricative Voiced postalveolar fricative The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or voiced domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z. An alternative symbol used in some...	dzh, j
Tatar Tatar language The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...	/dʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /ʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal fricative	c
Turkmen Turkmen language Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan...	/dʒ/ voiced postalveolar fricative Voiced postalveolar fricative The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or voiced domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z. An alternative symbol used in some...	j

Zhje 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 breve

Zhe with breve

Zhe with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe ....

, or 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...

Computing codes

character	Җ		җ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER
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...	1174	0496	1175	0497
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...	210 150	D2 96	210 151	D2 97
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...	Җ	Җ	җ	җ

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