U+0497 "җ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender Unicode Character

U+0497 "җ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Descender is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж) that includes a descender, a short tail extending below the baseline, attached to its lower right side. It is used primarily in the alphabets of several non-Slavic languages written with Cyrillic script, such as Tatar, Bashkir, and Kalmyk, where it typically represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the "j" in English "judge". This letter is the lowercase form of U+0496 "Җ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Zhe with Descender, and it is distinct from the standard Zhe, enabling precise phonetic transcription in these languages.