Abkhazian Dze (Ӡ ӡ; italics: Ӡ ӡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in Abkhaz where it represents a voiced alveolar affricate , pronounced like in pods.
It is also used in a 2007 alphabet for the Uilta language, where it represents a voiced postalveolar affricate , as in the in jam. It was also used in one 1937 proposal (not adopted) for the Karelian language.
The letter is often homoglyphic with the Latin letter Ezh , but in some fonts the uppercase form of the Abkhazian Dze has no descender or has a shortened tail.
This letter is equivalent to the more common Cyrillic Dze, differing only in shape.
Computing codes
See also Ʒ ʒ : Latin letter Ezh Ʃ ʃ : Latin letter Esh S s : Cyrillic letter Dze (Macedonian Dze) Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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