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cyrillic small letter dzzhe

Cyrillic Small Letter Dzzhe

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On Linux, hold CtrlShift, type U052B, then release; on Windows, use Alt with 052B on the numeric keypad. ԫ, called dzzhe, is a historical Cyrillic letter for the sound at the start of “jam,” used in older Komi and Ossetian writing. Modern Komi writes that sound дж.

Text symbol

What ԫ means

Use Unicode input: Linux and Windows have documented keystrokes. On Linux, hold CtrlShift, type U052B, then release. On Windows, hold Alt, type 052B on the numeric keypad, then release.

What is ԫ?

It is a historical single-letter spelling for the sound in “jam.” Called dzzhe, ԫ represents /d͡ʒ/. Its written form combines Д and Ж.

The letter appears in Andreas Johan Sjögren’s Ossetian alphabet from 1844 and in Pavel Savvaitov’s 1850 Komi grammar. These attestations show the form used in more than one spelling tradition.

The Ossetian alphabet containing it was replaced after 1924, when Ossetian writing shifted to Latin. Modern Komi spells the corresponding sound дж. Read ԫ according to the historical spelling around it; it is not a standalone chat expression.

Why does ԫ look different in different fonts?

Unicode identifies the letter but does not require one exact drawing. Fonts can change its proportions and joins while displaying the same character.

In 2018, a reported Noto font issue showed ԫ resembling дк. If it looks like the wrong pair, check the underlying character or view it in another font before changing the text.

Historical and specialist: ԫ appears in older Komi and Ossetian spelling, archival reproductions, and linguistic citations.

For modern Komi, use дж; reserve ԫ for historical spelling.

Who writes ԫ

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Don't confuse it with

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Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzhe
A separate Cyrillic letter used in Serbian and Macedonian. It represents a similar sound but has a different spelling history from ԫ.

дж Modern Komi uses this two-letter spelling for the corresponding sound; ԫ is the historical single-letter spelling.

дк A font may make ԫ resemble this pair. The historical design combines Д and Ж, so the resemblance can be a rendering issue.

Questions people ask

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Why does ԫ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find ԫ

Also called
dzzhe · dž
Search it as
dzh · дж · Komi · Ossetian · ԫ
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 052B, then AltX to get ԫ.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cyrillic small letter dzzhe”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 052b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ԫ
CSS
\052B
How do I type ԫ?
On Linux, as of 2026, hold CtrlShift, type U052B, then release.
Windows Unicode input
On Windows, as of 2026, hold Alt, type 052B on the numeric keypad, then release.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ԫ
HTML hex
ԫ
CSS content
content: "\052B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D4%AB
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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