Abkhazian Dze

Not to be confused with another Cyrillic letter З, the Latin letter Ʒ, the arabic numeral 3, or the Georgian letter ჳ.

Abkhazian Dze (Ӡ ӡ; italics: Ӡ ӡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in Abkhaz where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate /dz/, pronounced like ⟨ds⟩ in "pods".

Abkhazian Dze
Ӡ ӡ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[d͡z], [d͡ʒ~ɟ]
History
Development	З or Ʒ Ӡ ӡ
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

It is also used in a 2007 alphabet for the Uilta language, where it represents [d͡ʒ~ɟ] (j as in jam or g as in argue). It was also used in one 1937 proposal (not adopted) for the Karelian language.^{[citation needed]}

The letter looks very similar in shape to Latin Ezh (Ʒ, ʒ), as well as to numeral 3, but in some fonts the uppercase form of the Abkhazian Dze has no descender or has a shortened tail.

This letter is similar to the Cyrillic letter Dze, representing the same sound.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӡ		ӡ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN DZE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN DZE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1248	U+04E0	1249	U+04E1
UTF-8	211 160	D3 A0	211 161	D3 A1
Numeric character reference	Ӡ	Ӡ	ӡ	ӡ

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See also

• Ʒ ʒ : Latin letter Ezh
• Ʃ ʃ : Latin letter Esh
• S s : Cyrillic letter Dze (Macedonian Dze)
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode