concept
Izhitsa (Ѵ)
izhitsa
also: ижица, Ѵ
The last and rarest letter of the pre-1918 Russian alphabet, used only in a handful of Church Slavonic loanwords; one of the four archaic letters Chekhov proposes abolishing in this letter.
Reading notes
- From an Old Schoolmaster's Notebook §3 izhitsa
See the note on "the fita, the izhitsa, and the vocative case" above.