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<p>Ezh (Ʒ ʒ) /ˈɛʒ/ ⓘ EZH, also called the "tailed z", is a letter, notable for its use in the <a href="/facts/International_Phonetic_Alphabet/2e7jmUaG">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA) to represent the <a href="/facts/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative/Tb8XpRoS">voiced postalveolar fricative</a> consonant. This sound, sometimes transcribed /zh/, occurs in the pronunciation of ⟨si⟩ in <i>vision</i> /ˈvɪʒən/ and <i>precision</i> /prɪˈsɪʒən/, the ⟨s⟩ in <i>treasure</i> /ˈtrɛʒər/, and the ⟨g⟩ in <i>beige</i> /beɪʒ/. </p><p>Ezh is also used as a letter in some orthographies of <a href="/facts/Laz_language/dAetT4V9">Laz</a> and <a href="/facts/Skolt_Sami_language/kCWXq5Jf">Skolt Sami</a>, both by itself, and with a <a href="/facts/Caron/NSslRDsj">caron</a> (⟨Ǯ⟩ ⟨ǯ⟩). In Laz, these represent voiceless alveolar <a href="/facts/Affricate/Fn2y7FIA">affricate</a> /ts/ and its <a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">ejective</a> counterpart /tsʼ/, respectively. In Skolt Sami they respectively denote partially voiced alveolar and post-alveolar affricates, broadly represented /dz/ and /dʒ/. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, for example in the <a href="/facts/Aja_language_(Niger-Congo)/YX1hmwmC">Aja language</a> of <a href="/facts/Benin/G98jPhND">Benin</a> and the <a href="/facts/Dagbani_language/YFNluL9H">Dagbani language</a> of <a href="/facts/Ghana/IkUw32Ya">Ghana</a>, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected <a href="/facts/Sigma/DWcCDzou">sigma</a> ⟨Σ⟩. It also appears in the orthography of <a href="/facts/Uropi/DVWwsSax">Uropi</a>. </p><p>The zh /ʒ/ sound is represented by various letters in different languages, such as the letter ⟨<a href="/facts/%C5%BD/Bf1NUwpT">Ž</a>⟩ as used in many <a href="/facts/Slavic_languages/b5GaeFx1">Slavic languages</a>, the letter ⟨<a href="/facts/%C5%BB/Bf1NUwpT">Ż</a>⟩ as used in <a href="/facts/Kashubian_language/gs64oDQe">Kashubian</a>, the letter ⟨<a href="/facts/%D8%AC/X9bUMl2A">ج</a>⟩ in a number of <a href="/facts/Varieties_of_Arabic/YWBtGBoP">Arabic dialects</a>, the <a href="/facts/Persian_alphabet/4DvPdTDe">Persian alphabet</a> letter ⟨<a href="/facts/%C5%BDe/5vw1yvj6">ژ</a>⟩, the <a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">Cyrillic</a> letter ⟨<a href="/facts/Zhe_(Cyrillic)/yLj0rH7J">Ж</a>⟩, the <a href="/facts/Devanagari/dQvQ3Ufs">Devanagari</a> letter (<a href="/facts/%E0%A4%9D%E0%A4%BC/Aa6nkCsG">झ़</a>) and the <a href="/facts/Esperanto/5cWPoLuM">Esperanto</a> letter ⟨<a href="/facts/%C4%B4/I3pUoxSq">Ĵ</a>⟩. </p>