Dche

Dche (Ԭ ԭ; italics: Ԭ ԭ) 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 Che (Ч ч; Ч ч).

Dche
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[d͡ʑ]
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.

Dche was used in an old orthography of the Komi language.^[1][2][3]

Usage

This letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /d͡ʑ/. It can be romanized as ⟨đ⟩.

It was used chiefly in northeastern European Russia by the Komi language of the Komi peoples.^[4] It is equivalent to the digraph Дз дз today.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ԭ		ԭ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DCHE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DCHE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1324	U+052C	1325	U+052D
UTF-8	212 172	D4 AC	212 173	D4 AD
Numeric character reference	Ԭ	Ԭ	ԭ	ԭ

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
• Komi language
• Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje
• Ԇ ԇ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dzje