| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|
| Abkhaz | ажьа | [aˈʑa] | 'hare' | SeeAbkhaz phonology |
| Adyghe | жьау | [ʑaːw] | 'shadow' | |
| Catalan | Eastern[1] | ajut | [əˈʑut̪] | 'help' (n.) | SeeCatalan phonology |
| All dialects | peix blau | [ˈpe(j)ʑˈbɫɑw] | 'blue fish' |
| Chinese | Jiangshan | 十 | [ʑyœʔ] | 'ten' | |
| Taiwanese Hokkien | 今仔日/kin-á-ji̍t | [kɪn˧a˥ʑɪt˥] | 'today' | |
| Czech | život | [ʑɪvot] | 'life' | SeeCzech phonology |
| English | Ghana[2] | vision | [ˈviʑin] | 'vision' | Educated speakers may use[ʒ], which this phoneme corresponds to in other dialects.[2] |
| Japanese | 火事/kaji | [kaʑi] | 'fire' | Found infree variation with[d͡ʑ] between vowels. SeeJapanese phonology |
| Kabardian | жьэ | [ʑa] | 'mouth' | |
| Lower Sorbian[3] | źasety | [ʑäs̪ɛt̪ɨ][stress?] | 'tenth' | |
| Luxembourgish[4] | héijen | [ˈhɜ̝ɪ̯ʑən] | 'high' | Allophone of/ʁ/ after phonologically front vowels; some speakers merge it with[ʒ]. Occurs in only a few words.[4] SeeLuxembourgish phonology |
| Pa Na | [ʑu˧˥] | 'small' | |
| Polish[5] | źrebię | [ˈʑrɛbjɛ]ⓘ | 'foal' | Also denoted by the digraph⟨zi⟩. SeePolish phonology |
| Portuguese[6][7][8] | magia | [maˈʑi.ɐ] | 'magic' | Also described as palato-alveolar[ʒ].[9][10] SeePortuguese phonology |
| Romani | Kalderash[11] | ʒal | [ʑal] | 'he/she/it goes' | Realized as[d͡ʒ] in conservative dialects. |
| Romanian | Transylvanian dialects[12] | geană | [ˈʑanə] | 'eyelash' | Realized as[d͡ʒ] in standard Romanian. SeeRomanian phonology |
| Russian | Conservative Moscow Standard[13] | позже | [poʑːe] | 'later' | Somewhat obsolete in many words, in which most speakers realize it as hard[ʐː].[13] Present only in a few words, usually written⟨жж⟩ or⟨зж⟩. SeeRussian phonology |
| Sema[14] | aji | [à̠ʑì] | 'blood' | Possible allophone of/ʒ/ before/i,e/; can be realized as[d͡ʑ~ʒ~d͡ʒ] instead.[14] |
| Serbo-Croatian | Serbian andCroatian[15] | puž će | [pûːʑt͡ɕe̞] | 'the snail will' | Allophone of/ʒ/ before/t͡ɕ,d͡ʑ/.[15] SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology |
| Some speakers ofMontenegrin | źenica/з́еница | [ʑȇ̞nit̻͡s̪a̠] | 'pupil' | Phonemically/zj/ or, in some cases,/z/. |
| Spanish | Paraguayan[16] | carro | [ˈkaʑo] | 'car' | Dialectal realization of/r/ and allophone of/ɾ/ after/t/. |
| Tatar | Kazan dialect (standard Tatar) | җан /can | [ʑan] | 'soul' | InMishar Dialect, letter җ / c is [d͡ʒ].[17] |
| Uzbek[18] | [example needed] | | | |
| Xumi | Upper[19] | [ʑɐ̝˦] | 'beer, wine' | |
| Yi | ꑳ/yi | [ʑi˧] | 'tobacco' | |