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"Ж" is a letter from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian and several other languages that are written in the Cyrillic script. It represents a specific sound (similar to the "zh" sound in the English word "measure") and is essential for writing and reading words in these languages correctly.
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Zhe, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book Zhe, Zha, or Zhu, sometimes transliterated as Že (Ж ж; italics: Ж ж or Ж ж; italics: Ж ж) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced retroflex sibilant /ʐ/ (listen) or voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨s⟩ in "measure". It is also often used with D (Д) to approximate the sound in English of the Latin letter J with a ДЖ combination. Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩, ⟨j⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.
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