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 was used in an old orthography of the Komi language.Proposal to encode four Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
Usage This letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate . It can be romanized as ⟨đ⟩.
It was used chiefly in northeastern European Russia by the Komi language of the Komi peoples. It is equivalent to the digraph Дз дз today.
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See also Cyrillic characters in Unicode Komi language Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje Ԇ ԇ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dzje
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