U+02A3 "ʣ" Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph Unicode Character

U+02A3 "ʣ" Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph is a typographic ligature representing the voiced alveolar affricate sound /d͡z/, which occurs in languages such as Polish, Macedonian, and various transliteration systems. This single character was encoded in the International Phonetic Alphabet Extensions block to standardize the representation of the digraph as a distinct unit, facilitating precise phonetic transcription and avoiding ambiguity with separate letter sequences. Its inclusion supports linguistic documentation and digital text processing by providing a dedicated code point for this common sound across multiple writing systems.