Zhe with diaeresis

Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: Ӝ ӝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[1] Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж).

Zhe with diaeresis
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/d͡ʒ/
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Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language,^[2] where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam".^[3] It is usually romanized as ⟨dž⟩.

Zhe with diaeresis 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 breve (Ӂ ӂ), or Zhje (Җ җ).

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӝ		ӝ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DIAERESIS		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DIAERESIS
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1244	U+04DC	1245	U+04DD
UTF-8	211 156	D3 9C	211 157	D3 9D
Numeric character reference	Ӝ	Ӝ	ӝ	ӝ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

1. "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 43. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
2. Katzner, Kenneth (2002) [First published 1977]. The Languages of the World. New York, New York: Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 0415250048.
3. Алатырев В. И. Краткий грамматический очерк удмуртского языка English: V. I. Alatyrev, A brief grammatical sketch of the Udmurt language