sibilant (in final position or before voiceless consonants); , if followed by in final position or before voiceless consonants; or (Iron dialect of Ossetian, but in Digoron and Kudairag); clusters and are pronounced in Russian as if they were and , respectively (even if is the last letter of a preposition, like in Russian без жены “without wife” or из школы “from school”); cluster (sometimes also ) is pronounced in Russian as if it was (рассказчик “narrator”, звёздчатый “stellar, star-shaped”, без чая “without tea”); cluster can be pronounced (mostly in Ukrainian, Rusyn and Belarusian) as the voiced alveolar affricate (Ukrainian дзеркало “mirror”) or its palatalized form (Belarusian гадзіннік “clock”), but if and belong to different morphemes, then they are pronounced separately. In the standard Iron dialect of Ossetian, this cluster simply stands for ; other dialects treat it as the affricate . , the voiceless alveolar affricate in Mongolian. З-shaped Latin letters Zhuang A letter that looks like Cyrillic Ze (actually, a stylization of digit 3) was used in the Latin Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent the third (high) tone. In 1986, it was replaced by . Other related letters and similar characters 3 : Digit Three Ζ ζ : Greek letter Zeta Z z : Latin letter Z Ʒ ʒ : Latin letter Ezh Ȝ ȝ : Latin letter Yogh Ɜ ɜ : Latin letter reversed open E Ҙ ҙ : Cyrillic letter Dhe or Ze with descender Ӡ ӡ : Cyrillic letter Abkhazian Dze Ԑ ԑ : Cyrillic letter Reversed Ze Computing codes External links References