Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter Dzze Phonetic usage: [d͡ʑ]
The first line of the first edition of Ossetian newspaper Rastdzinad (Растджинад) with the letter Dzze in the title.
Dzze, in a late 19th century Komi alphabet
Dzze (Ꚉ ꚉ; italics: Ꚉ ꚉ ) is a letter of the old Abkhaz , Ossetic and Komi alphabets. It represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate (d͡ʑ).
In Ossetian , it was later replaced with digraph Dz (currently Дз).
It is used to distinguish the affricate /d͜z/ from the sequence d-z in some phonetic dictionaries.[ 1]
^ e.g. Орфоєпичний словник (Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке ), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.