Zhwe (Ꚅ ꚅ; italics: ''Ꚅ ꚅ'') 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, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...

. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters Ze (З з ''З з'') and Zhe (Ж ж ''Ж ж''). Zhwe was used in the

Abkhaz language Abkhaz ( ; ), sometimes spelled Abxaz and also known as Abkhazian, is a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza. It is spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people. It is one of the official languages of Abkhazia, where around 100, ...

where it represented the

labialized Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants. When vowels involve ...

voiced palato-alveolar sibilant A voiced postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association uses term ''voiced postalveolar fricative'' only for the sound , but it also describes the voiced postalveolar ...

. This was replaced by the digraph Жә.

Computing codes

{{charmap , A684, name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhwe , A685, name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Zhwe

Computing codes

See also