Ze with descender or Dhe (Ҙ ҙ; italics: Ҙ ҙ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in both the Bashkir[1] and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced dental fricative /ð/ (like the th in this) and the voiced alveolar sibilant affricate /d͡z/ (like the ds in lads) respectively. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ze (З з З з). It is romanized as Z with acute ⟨ź⟩ for Bashkir, and corresponds with Ezh ⟨ʒ⟩ in the Latin script of the Wakhi language.

The letter itself was introduced in 1939.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ҙ ҙ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ZE WITH DESCENDER 		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ZE WITH DESCENDER
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1176 U+0498 1177 U+0499
UTF-8 210 152 D2 98 210 153 D2 99
Numeric character reference Ҙ Ҙ ҙ ҙ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-20.