Zhe (Cyrillic)
| Zhe (живѣтє) | |
|---|---|
| Ж ж | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic | 
| Type | Alphabetic | 
| Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic | 
| Sound values | [[ʐ]], [/ʒ/ ⓘ], [/ʑ/ ⓘ] | 
| In Unicode | U+0416, U+0436 | 
| Alphabetical position | 7 | 
| History | |
| Development | |
Zhe, Zha, or Zhu, sometimes transliterated as Že (Ж ж; italics: Ж ж) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced retroflex sibilant /ʐ/ (listen) or voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨s⟩ in "measure". It is also often used with D (Д) to approximate the sound in English of the Latin letter J with a ДЖ combination. Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩, ⟨j⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.