U+01C5 "Dž" Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron Unicode Character
U+01C5 "Dž" Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron is a unique typographic glyph used primarily in certain Latin-based orthographies, most notably in the Gaj's Latin alphabet for the Serbo-Croatian language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /d͡ʒ/ similar to the "j" in "judge." This character is a titlecase digraph, meaning it appears as a capitalized first letter at the beginning of a word, such as in proper nouns or sentence starters, while the lowercase equivalent is "dž" and the standard uppercase version is "DŽ." Its design combines a capital D with a lowercase Z and a caron diacritic, which sits atop the Z component, and it is distinct from the separate letters D, Z, or the single character "DŽ" in terms of casing and orthographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Capital D Small Z Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "D" U+0044 Latin Capital Letter D "ž" U+017E Latin Small Letter Z with Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Dž |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Dž |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c5 |