U+0455 "ѕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ѕ
U+0455 "ѕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dze is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script that represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound /dz/, similar to the 'ds' in English "kids". It is primarily used in the Macedonian and Church Slavonic languages, where it appears as the sixth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, and historically it was also part of the early Cyrillic alphabet for Old Church Slavonic. Unlike some Cyrillic letters that look identical to Latin characters, this letter can be confused with the Latin "s" but has a different phonetic value and origin, deriving from the Glagolitic script. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0455 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Dze |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ѕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ѕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0455 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000455 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0455 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ѕ" U+0405 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ѕ" U+0405 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ѕ" U+0405 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ѕ" U+0405 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |