U+01F3 "dz" Latin Small Letter Dz Unicode Character
U+01F3 "dz" Latin Small Letter Dz is a single glyph that represents the ligature or digraph of the letters D and Z, used in certain writing systems where the combined sound /dz/ is treated as a single unit, such as in the Latin orthographies of some Slavic and Uralic languages, most notably for transliterating the Cyrillic letter Ѕ (Dze) in Macedonian and occasionally in Serbian or Croatian linguistic contexts. Historically, it was included in Unicode as part of the Latin Extended-B block to support phonetic transcriptions and specialized alphabet requirements, though it is rare in everyday text and often replaced by the separate letters "dz" in modern digital typography. Its uppercase counterpart is U+01F2 "Dz" and its titlecase form is U+01F1 "DZ", together forming a unified casing pair for proper representation of the digraph in capitalized contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Dz |
| 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 "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | dz |
| HTML Hex Encoding | dz |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01f3 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "DZ" U+01F1 Latin Capital Letter Dz |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Dz" U+01F2 Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z |
| Uppercase Code Point | "DZ" U+01F1 Latin Capital Letter Dz |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Dz" U+01F2 Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |