Dzze

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

Writing systemCyrillic

Language of originAbkhaz, Ossetian, Komi

Sound values[d͡ʑ]

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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.^[1]

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

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