Dche
Dche (Ԭ ԭ; italics: Ԭ ԭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters De (Д д; Д д) and Che (Ч ч; Ч ч). Dche was used in an old orthography of the Komi language.
| Dche | |
|---|---|
| Ԭ ԭ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Komi |
| Sound values | [d͡ʑ] |
| In Unicode | U+052C, U+052D |
Dche (Ԭ ԭ; italics: Ԭ ԭ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters De (Д д; Д д) and Che (Ч ч; Ч ч).
Dche was used in an old orthography of the Komi language.[1][2][3]
Usage
[edit]This letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /d͡ʑ/. It can be romanized as ⟨đ⟩.
It was used chiefly in northeastern European Russia by the Komi language of the Komi peoples.[4] It is equivalent to the digraph Дз дз today.
Computing codes
[edit]| Preview | Ԭ | ԭ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DCHE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DCHE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1324 | U+052C | 1325 | U+052D |
| UTF-8 | 212 172 | D4 AC | 212 173 | D4 AD |
| Numeric character reference | Ԭ | Ԭ | ԭ | ԭ |
See also
[edit]- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
- Komi language
- Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje
- Ԇ ԇ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dzje
References
[edit]- ^ "Unicode Reference List". Unicode. 20 Jun 2017. Retrieved 2 Oct 2017.
- ^ "Unicode full character archive". Unicode. 20 Jun 2017. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 Oct 2017.
- ^ Proposal to encode four Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
- ^ "Komi people". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 20 July 1998.
