U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze
U+0455 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0455 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Dze (Ѕ ѕ; italics: Ѕ ѕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used in the Macedonian alphabet to represent the voiced alveolar affricate /d͡z/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨ds⟩ in "needs" or "kids" in English. It is derived from the letter dzelo or zelo of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, and it was used historically for all Slavic languages that use Cyrillic.
Although fully obsolete everywhere in the Cyrillic world by the 19th century, the letter zelo was revived in 1944 by the designers of the alphabet of the then-codified Macedonian language. The phoneme is also present in Greek (ΤΖ τζ) and Albanian (X x), both non-Slavic neighbours to the Macedonian language; all are a part of the Balkan linguistic area. In the early 21st century, the same letter also appeared in Vojislav Nikčević's proposal for the new alphabet for the modern Montenegrin language.
The most common early letterform (Ѕ ѕ) resembles the Latin letter S (S s), but it is also seen reversed (Ꙅ ꙅ) like the Latin letter Reversed S (Ƨ ƨ), or Z with a tail and a tick (Ꙃ ꙃ).
Abkhaz has Abkhazian Dze (Ӡ ӡ), with an identical function and name but a different shape.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1109 |
UTF-8 | D1 95 |
UTF-16 | 04 55 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 04 55 |
URL-Quoted | %D1%95 |
HTML hex reference | ѕ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ñ• |
HTML named entity | ѕ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | F5 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | BE |
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | CF |
LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrdze |
Adobe Glyph List | afii10102 |
Adobe Glyph List | dzecyrillic |
digraph | ds |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE | |
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Cyrillic | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Cyrillic | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Lower | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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