U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ѕ
U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze is a letter used in the Cyrillic script, specifically representing the voiced alveolar affricate sound /d͡z/ similar to the "ds" in the English word "pads". Its lowercase form is "ѕ". This letter is primarily utilized in the modern Macedonian alphabet, where it is the tenth letter, and it was also historically used in other Cyrillic-based writing systems for Slavic languages such as Old Church Slavonic. Uniquely, the shape of the character resembles a Latin "S" but functions as a distinct grapheme within the Cyrillic set, set between the letters З (Ze) and И (I) in the Macedonian alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0405 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ѕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ѕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0405 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000405 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0405 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Simple Case Folding | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Case Folding | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ѕ" U+0455 Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 | Upper |