Zh (digraph)

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zh is a digraph consisting of the letters Z and H. This digraph is often found in dictionaries to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative (/ʒ/), like the <s> in pleasure, and it is also commonly used to transliteration Cyrillic ж and Persianژ , which are pronounced similarly. Zh as a digraph is rare in European languages using the Latin alphabet, but it is found in Breton in words that are pronounced with /z/ in some dialects and /h/ in others. It is however common in Native American orthographies, as in Navajo.