Ж

Жж

Ж (lower case ж) is a letter from the Cyrillic alphabet .

Its shape is reminiscent of a Latin X with a vertical bar in the middle or a К with a corner on both sides. The letter comes from the Glagolitic letter Žiwete (characters: Ⰶ, picture:) , but its origin is completely unclear, especially since the letter has no equivalents in the other alphabets.

Is pronounced as the ж voiced fricative postalveolar , in phonetic as / ⁠ ʒ ⁠ / circumscribed. This sound does not occur in purely German words, but in some foreign words commonly used in German, e.g. B. Gara g e , lo g ieren , G enie , J ournal . Since there is currently no unambiguous combination of letters for this sound in German, it is mostly paraphrased as sch , which makes the transcription ambiguous, actually even incorrect, since sch is actually the pronunciation of the Ш ( / ⁠ ʃ ⁠ / / ) reproduces. According to GDR transcription rules, the sound was therefore circumscribed as sh to distinguish it , in contrast to the Ш, which was circumscribed as sch . The German scientific transliteration uses the special character ž , which comes from the Czech . In English is in science and daily press zh usual.

Character encoding

default		Uppercase Ж	Minuscule ж
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 0416	U + 0436
	Surname	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
UTF-8		D0 96	D0 B6
XML / XHTML	decimal	Ж	ж
	hexadecimal	Ж	ж