U+052A "Ԫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe Unicode Character
U+052A "Ԫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe is a rarely used letter in the Cyrillic script, specifically designed to represent the voiced alveolar affricate sound [d͡z] in several minority languages of the Caucasus and Siberia, such as Abkhaz and Ossetian. It appears in the Unicode block Cyrillic Supplemental, which was introduced in version 5.1 in 2008, and its lowercase counterpart is U+052B "ԫ". The letter is formed by combining elements of a standard Cyrillic Д (De) and З (Ze) to visually indicate its composite phonetic value. Despite its inclusion in Unicode, it is not used in mainstream Cyrillic alphabets like Russian or Ukrainian, and its usage remains largely confined to specialized linguistic texts and digital typography for these minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+052A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x052A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000052A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u052a |
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 | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| Case Folding | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԫ" U+052B Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe |
| 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 |