U+04C2 "ӂ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve Unicode Character

U+04C2 "ӂ" Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe with Breve is a letter used primarily in the Cyrillic-based alphabets of certain non-Slavic languages, most notably in the Moldovan and Romanian Cyrillic alphabets during the mid 20th century, where it represented the postalveolar affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "judge." Its form combines the standard Cyrillic letter Zhe (ж) with a breve diacritic mark above it, indicating a palatalized or softened pronunciation. This character is distinct from the more common Zhe without a breve and is part of the Unicode Cyrillic block, though it is rarely used in modern digital text, having been largely replaced by Latin equivalents in many contexts after alphabets were romanized.