Everything about Zhe Cyrillic totally explained
Zhe (Ж, ж) is the
letter of
Cyrillic alphabet which represents the
voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/, similar to the
s in the
English word trea
sure or the
g in the English word mira
ge.
It is the seventh letter of the
Bulgarian alphabet, the eighth letter in the
Belarusian,
Macedonian,
Russian and
Serbian alphabets, and the ninth in the
Ukrainian alphabet. It is also found in most non-
Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, representing either /ʒ/, /ʐ/, or /dʒ/. In the old Cyrillic alphabet, zhe was the seventh letter. Its name was живѣте (zhivěte, 'live'
imp.), and it didn't have a numerical value.
It isn't known how the character for zhe was derived. No similar letter exists in
Greek,
Latin or any other alphabet of the time, though there's some graphic similarity with its
Glagolitic counterpart zhivete Ⰶ (Image: ) which represents the same sound. However, the origin of zhivete, like that of most Glagolitic letters, is unclear. One possibility is that it was formed from two connecting letters
shin ש, the bottom one inverted.
Sha ш, which represents the unvoiced counterpart of zhe, is one of several Cyrillic letters that derive directly from Hebrew letters.
Zhe is most often
transliterated as
zh (as in
Doctor Zhivago), or as
j, or more rarely as
zx, except in
Serbian and
Macedonian and some transliteration systems of
Bulgarian where it's most often transliterated as
ž.
The closest
Polish counterpart is
ż and, in some instances,
rz.
Zhe is one of the first letters learned by children who learn to write in
Slavic languages, because it looks quite like a young
frog floating in a
pond, and in these languages the word meaning "frog" or "toad" is written "жаба". Also, it looks like an
insect, and the Russian for "bug" is "жук".
Zhe can also be used in
Leet speak in place of the letter
x. The rap group Kris Kross has a logo of two k's placed back-to-back similar to zhe.
Code positions
| Character encoding |
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| Unicode |
Capital |
1046 |
0416 |
002026 |
0000010000010110 |
| Small |
1078 |
0436 |
002066 |
0000010000110110 |
| ISO 8859-5 |
Capital |
182 |
b6 |
266 |
0010110110 |
| Small |
214 |
d6 |
326 |
0011010110 |
| KOI 8 |
Capital |
246 |
f6 |
366 |
0011110110 |
| Small |
214 |
d6 |
326 |
0011010110 |
| Windows 1251 |
Capital |
198 |
c6 |
306 |
0011000110 |
| Small |
230 |
e6 |
346 |
0011100110 |
Its
HTML entities are: Ж or Ж for capital and ж or ж for small letter.
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