U+01C6 "dž" Latin Small Letter Dz with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
dž
U+01C6 "dž" Latin Small Letter Dz with Caron is a single grapheme used primarily in the Gaj's Latin alphabet for the Serbo-Croatian language, where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound /dʒ/, similar to the "j" in the English word "judge." This letter is a ligature of the letters D and Z with a caron diacritic placed above it, and it is the lowercase form used alongside its uppercase counterpart "Dž" and the titlecase variant "DŽ." In standard orthography, it functions as a distinct alphabetic unit, appearing in dictionaries and text to denote a specific phoneme that cannot be simply represented by the individual letters D and Z together without the caron.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Dz with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter D Z Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "ž" U+017E Latin Small Letter Z with Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | dž |
| HTML Hex Encoding | dž |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c6 |