U+04B9 "ҹ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character

U+04B9 "ҹ" Cyrillic Small Letter Che with Vertical Stroke is a distinctive glyph used primarily in the Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /d͡ʒ/, similar to the English "j" in "judge." It is the lowercase form of the capital letter Che with Vertical Stroke (U+04B8 "Ҹ") and features a vertical line descending from the middle of the letter's stem, distinguishing it from the standard Cyrillic Che (ч). This character was historically employed in Soviet-era Azerbaijani orthography but has largely been replaced by the Latin script "C" or "J" in modern usage, though it remains of interest to linguists and those studying historical Cyrillic transcriptions of Turkic languages.