U+04E1 "ӡ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze Unicode Character

U+04E1 "ӡ" Cyrillic Small Letter Abkhasian Dze is a letter used in the Cyrillic script specifically for the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate sound [d͡ʑ]. It is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ze (З з) with a descender, visually resembling a Latin "z" with a tail. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is typically used in uppercase form as U+04E0 (Ӡ). In Abkhaz orthography, it is placed in the alphabet after the letter Ѕ and before Ж, and its sound corresponds to the Georgian letter ძ in loanwords. The letter is relatively rare outside of Abkhaz linguistic contexts, but it is essential for accurately writing native words in that language.