Zh (digraph)

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Zh is a digraph consisting of the letters Z and H. This digraph represents the voiced postalveolar fricative ([ʒ]), like the <s> in pleasure, in Albanian and in Native American orthographies such as Navajo. It is used to represent the same sound in some English-language dictionaries, as well as to transliterate Cyrillic ж and Persianژ , which are also pronounced [ʒ]. Zh as a digraph is rare in European languages using the Latin alphabet; in addition to Albanian it is found in Breton in words that are pronounced with /z/ in some dialects and /h/ in others. In Hanyu Pinyin, zh represents the unaspirated voiceless retroflex affricate [ʈʂ].

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