Ѕ
Ѕ (lower case ѕ , IPA pronunciation ʣ ) is a letter of the Macedonian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet . Both uppercase and lowercase letters are identical in shape to the S in Latin script .
Early history
In the Glagolitic alphabet there was the letter as Dzelo ( 
/ Ⰷ ), the origin of which is unclear. It had a numerical value of 8.
In the early Cyrillic alphabet , the letter had a new look, probably derived from the stigma . The Cyrillic figures it has started 6. Even then the value According to this letter with the volume of З collapsing. In the 17th century it had the same sound value as the З and was only used at the beginning of the word.
Modern development
In the first draft of the civil script under Tsar Peter I from 1708, the phonetic value [ z ] was assigned to the Ѕ and the З was abolished. In the later version of 1710, however, the opposite was done (З retained, Ѕ abolished). Both variants were in use until 1735; thereafter, the variant without the S prevailed, which is why 1735 is regarded as the year of the final abolition of the S in Russian.
The Ѕ was also used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet for the sound [ ʣ ] until the alphabet was Latinized . The letter was sometimes used in the Serbian alphabet , but was no longer used after the Serbian spelling reform. The Ѕ is still included in the Serbian keyboard layout, although this language does not (any longer) use the Ѕ.
today
In 1944, the Ѕ for the Macedonian language was introduced in Yugoslavia . Similar to earlier in the Russian alphabet, it is intended to be used at the beginning of a word; however, the letter is not always used.
In Old Church Slavonic texts, ѕ is mostly transliterated as ʒ , in Macedonian, however , it is usually translated as dz .
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Ѕ | Minuscule ѕ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 0405 | U + 0455 |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE | |
| UTF-8 | D0 85 | D1 95 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
Ѕ
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ѕ
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| hexadecimal |
Ѕ
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ѕ
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