zhe with diaeresis

{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /d͡ʒ/ in Udmurt}}

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|type = Alphabet

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|phonemes = {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}

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Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: Ӝ ӝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж).

Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language,{{cite book |last=Katzner |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Katzner |date=2002 |orig-year=First published 1977 |title=The Languages of the World |location=New York, New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0415250048 |page=134}} where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|j}} in "jam".Алатырев В. И. [http://udmurt.info/library/alatyrev/grammatika/alatyrev-grammar.pdf Краткий грамматический очерк удмуртского языка] {{langx|en|V. I. Alatyrev, A brief grammatical sketch of the Udmurt language}} It is usually romanized as ⟨dž⟩.

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