Abkhazian Dze
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Abkhazian Dze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. It is used in the Abkhazian language where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate
Voiced alveolar affricate
The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dz⟩.-Features:...

 /dz/, pronounced like ⟨ds⟩ in "pods".

This letter was also used in one 1937 proposal (not adopted) for the Karelian Cyrillic alphabet.

Computing codes

character Ӡ ӡ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ABKHASIAN DZE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ABKHASIAN DZE
character encoding decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode
Unicode
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1248 04E0 1249 04E1
UTF-8
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

 
211 160 D3 A0 211 161 D3 A1
Numeric character reference
Numeric character reference
A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...

 
Ӡ Ӡ ӡ ӡ

See also

: Macedonian Dze
Dze
Dze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language to represent the voiced alveolar affricate , pronounced like ⟨ds⟩ in "pods"....

 : Latin letter Ezh
Ezh (letter)
Ezh is a letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet , representing the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant. It is also called the "tailed z". Example: vision . It is pronounced as the "s" in "treasure" or the "si" in the word "precision"...

  • Cyrillic characters in Unicode
    Cyrillic characters in Unicode
    The Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...

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