U+02A3 "ʣ" Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʣ
U+02A3 "ʣ" Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph is a typographic ligature representing the voiced alveolar affricate sound /d͡z/, which occurs in languages such as Polish, Macedonian, and various transliteration systems. This single character was encoded in the International Phonetic Alphabet Extensions block to standardize the representation of the digraph as a distinct unit, facilitating precise phonetic transcription and avoiding ambiguity with separate letter sequences. Its inclusion supports linguistic documentation and digital text processing by providing a dedicated code point for this common sound across multiple writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter D Z |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02a3 |