Dzze Cyrillic letter
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/ [ 1]
Computing codes
Character information
Preview Ꚉ ꚉ
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 & #42632;& #xA688;& #42633;& #xA689;
References
↑ e.g. Орфоєпичний словник (Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке ), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.
Italics indicate that the language no longer uses Cyrillic
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