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'.

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