zh as in Brezhnev
su as in casuarina
Ø as in Dvorak
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I’m guessing it’s a US thing, but I have /ʒ/ as ‘c’ in ‘coercion.’ Some dictionaries seem to list both /ʒ/ and /ʃ/, but I don’t think I’ve heard the latter here in California at least. Kind of a similar exception to the ‘tion’ in ‘equation.’
Many of us in the south of England say ‘coercion’ with both a /ʒ/ and a /ʃ/ too. It might even be in free rotation, I’m fairly sure I’ve said it both ways several times (although it’s not exactly a word that gets said often!). It’s certainly a funky outlier!
Equation I’ve never heard with a /ʃ/, it’s a more common word so its pronunciation is more stable. Perhaps it is due to the shortness of the word (compared to other /-ɛɪʃən/ words) and that the onset of the stressed syllable is unvoiced, /kw/. idk just ideas.