What ꚃ means
It represented /dzw/ in an older Abkhaz alphabet.
Early Abkhaz Cyrillic used extra letters for consonants that the basic Cyrillic alphabet did not represent. Uslar's first Cyrillic alphabet for Abkhaz dates to 1862; a 1912 Four Gospels sample is the earliest dated example of Dzwe in the supplied research.
Abkhaz later used Latin and Georgian alphabets, then returned to Cyrillic in 1954. In modern Abkhaz, ӡә represents the corresponding sound as of 2026. Use ꚃ when reading or describing the older spelling.
Historical and linguistic: ꚃ points to older Abkhaz spelling.
For modern Abkhaz, the corresponding spelling is ӡә.
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Who writes ꚃ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAn example of Dzwe in an older Abkhaz spelling.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꚃ show as a box?
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How to type or find ꚃ
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- Dzwe · Abkhaz Dzwe · dzw · ӡә · old Abkhaz alphabet · Unicode A683
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ꚃ\A683Codes and encoding1 code points
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