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A distinctive glyph is used for Bulgarian.

ж (upper case Ж)

  1. A letter of the Cyrillic script, called zhe.

ж (upper case Ж)

  1. A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called zhivete.
  • Regular.

  • Italics.

  • Handwritten.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж () (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʐ/, /ʒ/

ж (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • (phoneme) IPA: [ʒ], [ʃ] (terminal or before voiceless consonant)

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The seventh letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called жъ (ž), and written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Chukchi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ř) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (z) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (z) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (zh) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
Alternative scripts
Arabic ج
Cyrillic ж
Latin j
Yañalif ç
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʒ/, [dʒ]

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called же (je), and written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called жэ (že), and written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Northern Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called живѣте (živěte) or жівѣте (živěte), and written in the Old Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Only used in Russian borrowings.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The seventh letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Russian alphabet, called же (že) or жэ (žɛ), and written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž)

  1. Apocopic form of же (že)

ж (žm inan (indeclinable)

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of же́нский род (žénskij rod, feminine gender).
    Synonym: ж. (ž.)

ж (žf inan (indeclinable)

  1. Abbreviation of же́нская убо́рная (žénskaja ubórnaja, ladies' room, women's toilet).
    Synonym: Ж (Ž)

See Translingual.

ж (lower case, upper case Ж, Latin spelling ž)

  1. The eighth letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж m (Roman spelling ž)

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of женски род (feminine gender).
    Synonym: ж.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Tajik alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž°) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж ()

  1. to stretch
    Сыгьа сыжын.Səgʲa səẑən.I'm stretching.
  2. to support
  • Vogt, Hans (1963) Dictionnaire de la Langue Oubykh[2] (in French), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, page 222

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called же (že), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Inherited from Old East Slavic же (že), from Proto-Slavic *že, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi. Cognate with Czech že, Ancient Greek γε (ge), Sanskrit हि (hi), Russian же (že).

ж (ž)

  1. stresses the topic; is, really, right, isn't it, etc. (used as a tag question would be in English)

    Але́ ж це кни́жка!

    Alé ž ce knýžka!
    But this is a book!

    Ти ж вдо́ма?

    Ty ž vdóma?
    You are at home, aren't you?

ж (j) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (ž) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The ninth letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

ж (zh) (lower case, upper case Ж)

  1. The tenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called жэ (zhe), and written in the Cyrillic script.