Dzzhe | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Cyrillic |
Type | Alphabetic |
Sound values | [d͡ʒ] |
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Dzzhe (Ԫ ԫ; italics:Ԫ ԫ) is a letter of theCyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as aligature of the Cyrillic lettersDe (Д д Д д) andZhe (Ж ж Ж ж).
Dzzhe is used in the oldKomi andOssetic languages, as well as inGrigoriy Vereshchagin's 1895Udmurt alphabet. It was later abandoned, possibly due to it looking too much like "дк".[original research?] It was also used in D. V. Khitrov'sYakut alphabet from 1858 to 1917, corresponding to Дь.
It is used to distinguish the affricate/d͜ʒ/ from the sequence d-ž in some phonetic dictionaries.[1]
This letter represents thevoiced palato-alveolar affricate/d͡ʒ/ (j as in jam). It can be romanized as ⟨dž⟩.
Preview | Ԫ | ԫ | ||
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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 |