Dž
Dz with caron | |
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Dž | |
DŽ, DŽ, Dž, Dž, dž, dž | |
Usage | |
Type | alphabetic |
Language of origin | Serbo-Croatian |
Phonetic usage | [dʒ] |
History | |
Development | |
Transliteration equivalents | |
Variations | DŽ, DŽ, Dž, Dž, dž, dž |
Other | |
Dž (
Note that when the letter is the initial of a
The capitalized version of this letter ('DŽ'), as a single character in Unicode, is also the largest character amongst every Latin character in size (in blocks Basic Latin, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B).
Treatment as a single letter
In
Czech does have the sound d͡ʒ, but in native Czech words it only occurs as a replacement of [t͡ʃ] before other voiced consonants. Therefore, [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] are written in native words using the same letter č. This is not possible in loanwords, and Czech adopted the Dž orthography in this case (for example džus). In this case, the two letters are always split when text is written vertically. Lithuanian and Latvian similarly use Dž without considering it a separate letter.
Letter "Dž" is found in Unicode at code points U+01C4 (uppercase, DŽ), U+01C5 (titlecase, Dž), and U+01C6 (lowercase, dž). Unicode representations of the letter are very rarely used in digital media, which tends to favor the corresponding two-character combinations. Manufacturers of computer keyboards and typewriters for Croatian users typically do not provide a single key for the letter. X keyboard extension provides latinunicode
keyboard layouts for entering Unicode representation of the letter on standard Croatian keyboard.[1]
See also
- Dz
- Џ џ : Cyrillic Dzhe
- Dzs: the Hungarian trigraph letter of the same sound
Sources
- Hrvatski pravopis - Slova (in Croatian)
References
- FreeDesktop.org, line 239, April 17, 2014, retrieved July 28, 2014