U+02A3 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH: ʣ – Unicode

U+02A3 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0250 to U+02AF IPA Extensions in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+02A3 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. This refers to a class of sounds, not a single sound. There are several types with significant perceptual differences:

The voiced alveolar sibilant affricate [d͡z] is the most common type, similar to the ds in English lads.

The voiced alveolar non-sibilant affricate [dð̠], or [dð͇] using the alveolar diacritic from the Extended IPA, is found, for example, in some dialects of English and Italian.

The voiced alveolar lateral affricate [d͡ɮ] is found, for example, in Xhosa.

The voiced alveolar retracted sibilant affricate [d͡z̺]
This article discusses the first two.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	675
UTF-8	CA A3
UTF-16	02 A3
UTF-32	00 00 02 A3
URL-Quoted	%CA%A3
HTML-Escape	ʣ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	Ê£
AGL: Latin-5	uni02A3
Adobe Glyph List	dzaltone

Related Characters

Modifier Letter Small Dz Digraph

Confusables

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH
Unicode 1 Name	LATIN SMALL LETTER D Z
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Script	Latin
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Lowercase	✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Lowercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Uppercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Titlecase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Case Folding	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✔
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Lower
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Latin Small Letter Dz Digraph
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R