Abkhazian Che

Abkhazian Che (Ҽ ҽ; italics: Ҽ ҽ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Abkhazian Che is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate. In the alphabet, it is placed between $⟨Ҷ⟩$ and $⟨Ҿ⟩$.

Resemblance
The letter only coincidentally resembles a lowercase Latin letter 'e'. Historically, it's the cursive form of the corresponding letter in the Abkhazian Latin alphabet, where it somewhat resembled a Greek φ.

Cche
Cche or Double Che (Ꚇ ꚇ; italics: Ꚇ ꚇ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It was used in the old Abkhaz alphabets, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate. The letter was invented by baron Peter von Uslar. In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык". The letter is Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled. Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is part of the modern Abkhaz alphabet, which is depicted as Ҽ.

Related characters and other similar characters

 * Պ պ : Armenian letter Pe
 * ɰ : Voiced velar approximant