Zhe (Cyrillic)
Language Position in alphabet Represented sound Romanization
Belarusian 8th voiced retroflex fricative /ʐ/ ž
Bulgarian 7th voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ zh
Macedonian 8th voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ zh
Russian 8th voiced retroflex fricative /ʐ/ zh
Serbian 8th voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ ž
Ukrainian 9th voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ zh
Uzbek ( 1940-1994 ) 8th voiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/ or voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ ( in Russian loanwords only ) j
Mongolian 8th voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ j
Kyrgyz 8th voiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/ j
Dungan 8th voiced retroflex fricative /ʐ/ r
other non-Slavic languages voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/
Usage
Zhe is used in the alphabets of all Slavic languages using a Cyrillic alphabet , and of most non-Slavic languages which use a Cyrillic alphabet . The position in the alphabet and the sound represented by the letter vary from language to language .
Zhe (Ж ж; italics: Ж ж) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant (), or the somewhat similar voiced retroflex sibilant (), like the pronunciation of in treasure. Zhe is romanized as or .