Zhwe (Ꚅ ꚅ; italics: Ꚅ ꚅ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters Ze (З з; З з) and Zhe (Ж ж; Ж ж).
Zhwe was used in the Abkhaz language where it represented the labialized voiced palato-alveolar sibilant /ʒʷ/. This was replaced by the digraph Жә.
Computing codes
editPreview | Ꚅ | ꚅ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHWE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHWE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 42628 | U+A684 | 42629 | U+A685 |
UTF-8 | 234 154 132 | EA 9A 84 | 234 154 133 | EA 9A 85 |
Numeric character reference | Ꚅ |
Ꚅ |
ꚅ |
ꚅ |