Ze

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Cyrillic letter Ze
Cyrillic numerals: 7
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0417
minuscule: U+0437
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙗ
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Ze (З, з) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/. It's easily confusable with the figure three (3). It can also be confused with the Russian letter Э, which represents the vowel /e/ when it does not follow a soft consonant.

The pronunciation of <з> is exactly like <z> in English, except word-finally and before voiceless consonants, when it represents a voiceless [s] or followed by <ь> or any of the palatalizing vowels, when it represents /zʲ/ as in Russian зеркало [ˈzʲɛr.kə.lə] ('mirror').

Cyrillic ze is derived from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ, ζ).

Early Cyrillic alphabet usage

The Early Cyrillic alphabet used Zemlya (majuscule: Ꙁ, minuscule: ꙁ) and was removed with this letter later on. The shape looked like a Latin <z> with a tail on the bottom.

Zhuang

<З> was used in Zhuang's Latin alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent the third (high) tone because of its similarity to the numeral 3. In 1986, it was replaced by <j>.

Montenegrin

A proposed version of the Latin alphabet for the Montenegrin language includes the letter <з> to represent the phoneme /dz/.

See also

• Ƨ ƨ
• Ч ч
• Ƽ ƽ
• Ƅ ƅ
• Z, z - Latin
• Ζ, ζ - Zeta (Greek)

similar characters

• Ѯ ѯ
• Ҙ ҙ
• Ȝ ȝ
• Ʒ ʒ
• Ӡ ӡ