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Cyrillic letter

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Che with descender


Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/t͡ʃʼ/,/d͡ʒ/
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Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics:Ҷ ҷ) is a letter of theCyrillic script.^[1] Its form is derived from theCyrillic letter Che (Ч ч Ч ч). In theISO 9 system ofromanization, Che with descender is transliterated using theLatin letter C-cedilla (Ç ç).^[2]

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

Language	Pronunciation	Romanization
Abkhaz	/t͡ʃʼ/postalveolar ejective affricate^[3]
Shughni^[4]^: 18	/d͡ʒ/voiced postalveolar affricate^[5]^: 778	j (Latin equivalent)
Tajik	/d͡ʒ/voiced postalveolar affricate^[6]^: 5	ç, j
Wakhi	/d͡ʒ/voiced postalveolar affricate^{[citation needed]}	ǰ (Latin equivalent)

Che with descender corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to thedigraphs⟨дж⟩ or⟨чж⟩, or to the lettersChe with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ),Dzhe (Џ џ),Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ),Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ),Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), orZhje (Җ җ).^{[citation needed]}

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

Character information
Preview	Ҷ		ҷ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH DESCENDER		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE WITH DESCENDER
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1206	U+04B6	1207	U+04B7
UTF-8	210 182	D2 B6	210 183	D2 B7
Numeric character reference	Ҷ	Ҷ	ҷ	ҷ

^"Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF"(PDF).The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. N. Retrieved2011-05-19.
^ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation - Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters - Slavic and non-Slavic languages.International Standards Organization. p. 8.
^Hewitt, George (2010).Abkhaz: A Comprehensive Self-Tutor. Lincom Europa. pp. 18–20.
^Kalandarov, Tohir (2020)."The Pamirian languages: between past and future (the case of the Shughni language)"(PDF).University of Central Asia Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit (5). Retrieved15 October 2025.
^Edelman, D. (Joy) I.; Dodykhudoeva, Leila R. (2009). "14A: The Pamir Languages". In Windfuhr, Gernot (ed.).The Iranian languages. Routledge. Retrieved15 October 2025.
^Khojayori, Nasrullo; Thompson, Mikael (2009).Tajiki Reference Grammar for Beginners. Georgetown University Press.

Italics indicate that the language no longer uses Cyrillic

Letters of the Cyrillic script
Primary letters	Аа Бб Вв Гг Дд Ее Жж Зз Ии Іі Йй Кк Лл Мм Нн Оо Пп Рр Сс Тт Уу Фф Хх Цц Чч Шш Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Ээ Юю Яя
Other Slavic letters	Ѓѓ Ґґ Ђђ Ёё Єє З́з́ Ѕѕ Її Ꙇꙇ Јј Љљ Њњ С́с́ Ќќ Ћћ Ўў Џџ Ꙏꙏ
Non-Slavic letters	А̊ А̃ Ӓ̄ Ӕ Ә Ә̃ Ӛ В̌ Ԝ Ҕ Ғ Ӻ Ғ̌ Ӷ/Г̡ Д̌ Д̆ Ӗ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ԑ Җ Ӝ Ӂ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ Ӡ И̃ И̇ Ҋ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԛ Л́ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ӎ ᵸ Ӊ Ԩ Ң Ӈ Ҥ О̆ О̃ Ө Ө̄ Ө̆ Ӫ Ԥ Р̌ Ҏ Ҫ Т̌ Ҭ Ᲊ Ӱӱ У̃ Ӳ У̊ Ұ Ү Ү́ Х̑ Х̌ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ҵ Ҷ Ҷ̣ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ч̣ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Ҩ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Ӏ
Archaic Slavic letters	Ꙣꙣ Ꙉꙉ Ꙥꙥ Ꙧꙧ O variants Ꙋꙋ Ѡѡ Ѿѿ Ꙡꙡ Ѣѣ Я̈я̈ Ꙗꙗ Ѥѥ Ѫѫ Ѧѧ Ѯѯ Ѱѱ Ѳѳ Ѵѵ Ҁҁ
Archaic non-Slavic letters	А̨ Б̣ Г̧ Г̄ Г̆г̆ Д̨ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚁ Ꚅ Ԅ Ԇ Ꚉ Ԫ Ꚃ Ꚕꚕ Ј̵ К̀ К̄ К̂ Ԟ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ԋ Ԣ Ҧ Ԗ Ԍ Ԏ Ꚋ Ꚍ Х̾ Ꚏ Ꚑ Ԭ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ԙ Ꙟ
Archaic diacritics	palatalization sign (◌҄) pokrytie (◌҇) titlo (◌҃)
Combinations of Cyrillic letters	Digraphs Multigraphs