U+0455 "ѕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dze Unicode Character

U+0455 "ѕ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dze is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script that represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound /dz/, similar to the 'ds' in English "kids". It is primarily used in the Macedonian and Church Slavonic languages, where it appears as the sixth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, and historically it was also part of the early Cyrillic alphabet for Old Church Slavonic. Unlike some Cyrillic letters that look identical to Latin characters, this letter can be confused with the Latin "s" but has a different phonetic value and origin, deriving from the Glagolitic script. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0405 "Ѕ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dze.