che with vertical stroke

{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}

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|type = Alphabet

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|name = Che with vertical stroke

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

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Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: Ҹ ҹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч Ч ч).

Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri language{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf |title=Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF |work=The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 |year=2010 |page=42 |access-date=2011-05-20}} and Altai language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|j}} in "jump". The corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet is {{angbr|C c}}. In Altai, it represents

the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate {{IPA|/dʑ/}}.

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

From 1958 until 1991, it was used in the Azerbaijani alphabet to represent {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}};{{Cite book|last1=Awde|first1=Nicholas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLIQmF0DJ3QC&dq=Azerbaijan+Cyrillic+1958&pg=PA18|title=Azerbaijani-English, English-Azerbaijani Dictionary and Phrasebook|last2=Ismailov|first2=Famil|date=1999|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=978-0-7818-0684-8|pages=18|language=en}} in this alphabet it is found in the name of Azerbaijan: «{{Lang|az|Азәрбајҹан}}». The Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet and {{Angbr|ҹ}} continue to be used to write Azerbaijani in Dagestan.