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zh vs. j. Are these pronounced in the same way? Pinyin uses zh and j to represent two distinct sounds in Chinese, but these sounds are not differentiated in English, so they are both pronounced like an English j However, as the answers mention, zh is commonly used to represent a voiced sh, the sound in words such as lesion and azure
Why was zh picked to represent ʒ , and where does it come from? Prior to that date, zh was used in the Albanian Bashkimi alphabet, but it represented [dʒ] in that spelling system Per the linked Wikipedia article, in the Bashkimi system, palatal and sibilant affricates are represented as c ts ch z zh = c~tɕ ts tʃ dz dʒ and sibilant fricatives are represented as s sh x xh = s ʃ z ʒ