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