Dzzhe (Ԫ ԫ; italics: Ԫ ԫ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters De (Д д Д д) and Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж).
Dzzhe is used in the old Komi and Ossetic languages. It was later abandoned, possibly due to its looking too much like "дк".
It is used to distinguish the affricate /d͜ʒ/ from the sequence d-ž in some phonetic dictionaries.[1]
Usage
This letter represents the voiced palato-alveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/. It can be romanized as ⟨dž⟩.
Computing codes
Preview | Ԫ | ԫ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZZHE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZZHE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1322 | U+052A | 1323 | U+052B |
UTF-8 | 212 170 | D4 AA | 212 171 | D4 AB |
Numeric character reference | Ԫ |
Ԫ |
ԫ |
ԫ |
See also
References
- ^ e.g. Орфоєпичний словник (Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.