Dche Explained

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

This letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate pronounced as //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.

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
• Komi language
• Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje
• Ԇ ԇ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dzje

References

1. Web site: Unicode Reference List. 20 Jun 2017. Unicode. 2 Oct 2017.
2. Web site: Unicode full character archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20171002175908/http://cldr-build.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B:ea=N:%5D. dead. 2 October 2017. 20 Jun 2017. Unicode. 2 Oct 2017.
3. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12040-n4199-dzzhe-dche.pdf Proposal to encode four Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
4. Encyclopedia: Komi people . Encyclopaedia Britannica . 20 July 1998 .