U+052B "ԫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe Unicode Character

U+052B "ԫ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe is a lowercase letter from the Cyrillic script, specifically used in the Abkhaz alphabet to represent the voiced alveolar affricate sound /d͡z/, similar to the "dz" in the English word "adze." Its uppercase counterpart is U+052A "Ԫ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe, and it belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which was added to the Unicode standard in 2008 with version 5.2 to support the orthography of minority languages like Abkhaz. The letter is formed as a ligature of "Д" (De) and "З" (Ze), reflecting its composite sound, and it appears primarily in scholarly or native contexts rather than in mainstream digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+052B
Version Added	7.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x052B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000052B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u052b

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	"Ԫ" U+052A Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԫ" U+052A Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԫ" U+052A Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԫ" U+052A Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzzhe
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