Che with descender

{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}

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|type = Alphabet

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|phonemes = {{IPA|/t͡ʃʼ/}}, {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}

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Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: Ҷ ҷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч Ч ч). In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter C-cedilla (Ç ç).

Che with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

class=wikitable ! Language !! Pronunciation !! Romanization
Abkhaz	{{IPA|/t͡ʃʼ/}} postalveolar ejective affricate	č̢{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}
Shughni |{{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} voiced postalveolar affricate |j (Latin equivalent)
Tajik	{{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} voiced postalveolar affricate, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|j}} in "jump"	ç, j
Wakhi |{{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} voiced postalveolar affricate |ǰ (Latin equivalent)

Che with descender corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs {{angbr|дж}} or {{angbr|чж}}, or to the letters Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ).

In the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language and in the Tofa language, che with descender is sometimes used in place of che with hook, which has not yet been encoded in Unicode.