U+01F3 "dz" Latin Small Letter Dz Unicode Character

U+01F3 "dz" Latin Small Letter Dz is a single glyph that represents the ligature or digraph of the letters D and Z, used in certain writing systems where the combined sound /dz/ is treated as a single unit, such as in the Latin orthographies of some Slavic and Uralic languages, most notably for transliterating the Cyrillic letter Ѕ (Dze) in Macedonian and occasionally in Serbian or Croatian linguistic contexts. Historically, it was included in Unicode as part of the Latin Extended-B block to support phonetic transcriptions and specialized alphabet requirements, though it is rare in everyday text and often replaced by the separate letters "dz" in modern digital typography. Its uppercase counterpart is U+01F2 "Dz" and its titlecase form is U+01F1 "DZ", together forming a unified casing pair for proper representation of the digraph in capitalized contexts.