U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze is a letter used in the Cyrillic script, specifically representing the voiced alveolar affricate sound /d͡z/ similar to the "ds" in the English word "pads". Its lowercase form is "ѕ". This letter is primarily utilized in the modern Macedonian alphabet, where it is the tenth letter, and it was also historically used in other Cyrillic-based writing systems for Slavic languages such as Old Church Slavonic. Uniquely, the shape of the character resembles a Latin "S" but functions as a distinct grapheme within the Cyrillic set, set between the letters З (Ze) and И (I) in the Macedonian alphabet.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0405
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ѕ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ѕ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD0 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0405
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000405
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0405
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic