Dzze

Dzze
Ꚉ ꚉ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Abkhaz, Ossetian, Komi
Sound values	[d͡ʑ]

The nameplate of the first edition of Ossetian newspaper Rastdzinad (Растджинад) with the letter Dzze in the title.

Dzze, in a late 19th century Komi alphabet

Dzze (Ꚉ ꚉ; italics: Ꚉ ꚉ) is a letter of the old Abkhaz, Ossetic and Komi alphabets. It represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate (d͡ʑ). It resembles the letter De with a tail of a small Ze.

In Ossetian, it was later replaced with digraph Dz (currently Дз).

It is used to distinguish the affricate /d͜z/ from the sequence d-z in some phonetic dictionaries.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꚉ		ꚉ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZZE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZZE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42632	U+A688	42633	U+A689
UTF-8	234 154 136	EA 9A 88	234 154 137	EA 9A 89
Numeric character reference	Ꚉ	Ꚉ	ꚉ	ꚉ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode