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Zhe is the 7th letter of the Russian, Bulgarian, and Belarussian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian and Serbian alphabets, and the 9th in the Ukrainian alphabet. It is also found in most non- Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, representing either /Z/ or /dZ/. In the old Cyrillic alphabet, zhe was the 7th letter. Its name was "живѣте" (zhivěte)—live, and it did not have a numerical value.
It is not known what zhe was derived from. No similar letter exists in Greek, Latin or any other alphabet of the time, though there is some graphic similarity with the Glagolitic letter "zhivete" () which represents the same sound. However, the origin of zhivete, like that of most Glagolitic letters, is unclear.
Zhe is most often transliterated as "zh", more rarely as "zx", except in Serbian and Macedonian where it is most often transliterated as "ž", or, lacking diacritics, simply as "z".
The PolishPolish polski jezyk polski is the official language of Poland. History Polish has been influenced by contact with foreign languages (foremost Latin, Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian and recently it has been virtually bombarded by English, especiall counterpart is "z".
Zhe is one of the first letters learned by children who learn to write in Slavic languages other than Russian, because it looks quite like a young frogA frog is a fresh-water amphibian which changes from a tadpole and is of the family Ranidae in the Order Anura. They are closely related to toads. The Ranidae are sometimes called the "true frogs" since a few members of other families also have common nam floating in a pondA pond is: A body of water smaller than a lake. Used for small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross; Also: garden ponds, engineered treatment features (see treatment pond), and field units in agriculture (for example,, and in these languages the word meaning "frog" is written "жаба".
