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See also: Appendix:Variations of "z"
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French
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- (phonetics) The affricate sound [d͡z].
- (phonetics) The 'closed' voiced fricative in Circassian, for which ⟨
⟩ was once proposed for the IPA.
Mandarin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably derived from Esperanto usage of ĉ and ŝ. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Proposal of this series for use in Chinese latinisation is noted as early as 1939 in Latinxua Sin Wenz literature (such as 《中國話寫法拉丁化指南》 by 王弦, page 78).
Romanization
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