U+A689 "ꚉ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A689 "ꚉ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dzze is a relatively rare and historically significant letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, primarily appearing in certain Old Church Slavonic and early Slavic manuscripts to represent the consonant cluster /dz/ (equivalent to the voiced affricate found in words like "adze"). Often considered a ligature or variant of the more common letter "dzelo" (Ѕ), this character belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 as part of efforts to digitally preserve archaic and regional Cyrillic script variants. Its usage is largely confined to scholarly texts, linguistic reconstruction, and digital archiving of medieval Slavic documents, where it can be found as a typographic alternate alongside its uppercase counterpart U+A688.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꚉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꚉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9A 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA689 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A689 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua689 |
Unicode Properties