{{short description|Cyrillic letter}} {{distinguish|Turned h with stroke}} {{infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Che with vertical stroke | image = Cyrillic letter Che with Vertical Stroke.svg | imageclass = skin-invert-image | imagealt = | phonemes = {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, {{IPA|/dʑ/}} | number = | fam1 = | letter = Ҹ ҹ | unicode = U+04B8, U+04B9 | language = Azerbaijani }}

'''Che with vertical stroke''' (Ҹ&nbsp;ҹ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ҹ&nbsp;ҹ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч&nbsp;ч&nbsp;<span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ч&nbsp;ч''</span>).

Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri language,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf |title=Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF |work=The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 |year=2010 |page=42 |access-date=2011-05-20}}</ref> where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|j}} in "'''j'''ump". The corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet is {{angbr|C c}}.

Che with vertical stroke corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs {{angbr|дж}} or {{angbr|чж}}, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ&nbsp;ҷ), Dzhe (Џ&nbsp;џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ&nbsp;ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ&nbsp;ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ&nbsp;ӝ), or Zhje (Җ&nbsp;җ).

From 1958 until 1991, it was used in the Azerbaijani alphabet to represent {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}};<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Awde|first1=Nicholas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLIQmF0DJ3QC&dq=Azerbaijan+Cyrillic+1958&pg=PA18|title=Azerbaijani-English, English-Azerbaijani Dictionary and Phrasebook|last2=Ismailov|first2=Famil|date=1999|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=978-0-7818-0684-8|pages=18|language=en}}</ref> in this alphabet it is found in the name of Azerbaijan: «{{Lang|az|Азәрбај'''ҹ'''ан}}». The Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet and {{Angbr|ҹ}} continue to be used to write Azerbaijani in Dagestan. The letter is also used in the Tat and Judeo-Tat alphabets in Azerbaijan.<ref name="Juhuri">Genik Isakov. [https://stmegi.com/upload/iblock/907/9070555acc266095d83c687ab7b300d7.pdf Primer Juhuri (Judeo-Tat language). A guide to learning the Juhuri language for preschool and primary school children]. Charitable Foundation STMEGI, 2020. p. 72. {{ISBN|978-5-7164-1077-0}}</ref>

==Computing codes==

{{charmap |04B8|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter<br />Che with Vertical Stroke |04B9|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Che with Vertical Stroke }}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B8|title=Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart|last=AG|first=Compart|website=compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B8|language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B9|title=Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart|last=AG|first=Compart|website=compart.com/en/unicode/U+04B9|language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref>

==See also== *Cyrillic characters in Unicode

==References== {{Reflist}}

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