U+01C5 "Dž" Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron Unicode Character

U+01C5 "Dž" Latin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron is a unique typographic glyph used primarily in certain Latin-based orthographies, most notably in the Gaj's Latin alphabet for the Serbo-Croatian language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /d͡ʒ/ similar to the "j" in "judge." This character is a titlecase digraph, meaning it appears as a capitalized first letter at the beginning of a word, such as in proper nouns or sentence starters, while the lowercase equivalent is "dž" and the standard uppercase version is "DŽ." Its design combines a capital D with a lowercase Z and a caron diacritic, which sits atop the Z component, and it is distinct from the separate letters D, Z, or the single character "DŽ" in terms of casing and orthographic conventions.