Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics:
''Ӂ ӂ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
, created by Soviet linguists for the
cyrillization
Cyrillization or Cyrillisation is the process of rendering words of a language that normally uses a writing system other than Cyrillic script into (a version of) the Cyrillic alphabet. Although such a process has often been carried out in an ad h ...
of non-
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Ear ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж
''Ж ж'') by an addition of a
Breve
A breve (, less often , neuter form of the Latin "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. As used in Ancient Greek, it is also called , . It resembles the caron (the wedge or in Czech, in Slo ...
.
Zhe with breve is or has been used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Zhe with breve corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the
digraphs or , or to the letters
Che with descender
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ). In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter ...
(Ҷ ҷ),
Che with vertical stroke
Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Che (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ''Ч ч'').
Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri l ...
(Ҹ ҹ),
Dzhe
Dzhe or Gea (Џ џ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian ( Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of j in “jump ...
(Џ џ),
Khakassian Che
Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ).
It is used in the alphabet of the Khakas language, as its name suggests, and represents the voiced po ...
(Ӌ ӌ),
Zhe with diaeresis
Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ).
Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, where it represents the v ...
(Ӝ ӝ), or
Zhje
Zhje or Zhe with descender (Җ җ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) with an addition of a descender on its right leg.
Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dun ...
(Җ җ).
Traditionally, these characters were transliterated into the International English character set as , as in ''
Birobidzhan
Birobidzhan ( rus, Биробиджа́н, p=bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan; yi, ביראָבידזשאַן, ''Birobidzhan'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, locat ...
''; but more recently, especially in the US, they are transliterated as , as in 'jump'.
Computing codes
See also
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Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU ...
*
Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet
The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian language spoken in the Soviet Union ( Moldovan) and was in official use from 1924 to 1932 and 1938 to 1989 (and still in use today in the breakaway Moldovan regio ...
External links
Gagauz language, alphabet and pronunciation
References
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Gagauz language
Moldovan language
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with breve