Yes, I'm Hungarian, and I'm not even mad (pun intended) about "mad" matching "madzag". I find that we ourselves sometimes conflate characters and letters, so many people's first thought would be that "madzag" is six letters. I think most other digraphs e.g. "sz" or "gy" are considered more tightly bound, so one would be unlikely to say that "szám" (=number) is four letters rather than three.
d1sxeyes|1 year ago
The easiest way is to imagine text being written vertically. In some cases, the digraphs (or trigraphs) will be written together on a single line, and sometimes they’ll be written on separate lines.
However, more consistently, if you imagine a person’s initials, Csanádi Dzsenifer is CsDzs.