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The Cyrillic letter ze З з has a similar body to Ezh and the Abkhazian dze Ӡ ӡ . As customary, the Cyrillic script has a stiffer structure, but both letters have common roots in historical cursive forms of the Greek letter zeta Ζ ζ .
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
The most common early letterform (Ѕ ѕ) resembles the Latin letter S (S s), but it is also seen reversed (Ꙅ ꙅ) like the Latin letter Reversed S (Ƨ ƨ), or Z with a tail and a tick (Ꙃ ꙃ). Abkhaz has Abkhazian Dze (Ӡ ӡ), with an identical function and name but a different shape.
ze/zir or ze/hir (commonly pronounced zee/zeer or zee/heer) The teacher graded zir paper today, and ze got an A! Ze said hirself that I’m hir favorite neighbor.
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Ze with descender or Dhe (Ҙ ҙ; italics: Ҙ ҙ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in both the Bashkir [ 1 ] and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced dental fricative /ð/ (like the th in th is) and the voiced alveolar sibilant affricate /d͡z/ (like the ds in la ds ) respectively.
Prior to 1900, /k/ was written as k , as well as c , ch and q (in words derived from Italian and Latin). Vassalli's 1796 work contained several new letters to represent the sounds of the Maltese language, which included the invention of several ad-hoc letters as well as the importation of Cyrillic ge, che, sha, and ze. His alphabet is set out ...
Ze (З з; italics: З з) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, like the pronunciation of z in "zebra". Ze is romanized using the Latin letter z . The shape of Ze is very similar to the Arabic numeral three 3 , and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter E Э .