U+005A "Z" Latin Capital Letter Z Unicode Character

U+005A "Z" Latin Capital Letter Z is the digital and typographic representation of the twenty sixth and final letter of the modern English alphabet, encoded as a single code point in the Unicode standard. It is defined within the Basic Latin block, sharing its position with the ASCII standard, and its primary function is to denote a capital Z in written text, used to start proper nouns, acronyms, and sentences. In computer systems, it is stored as a single byte with the hexadecimal value 5A, and it serves as a fundamental building block for textual communication, appearing in everything from technical documentation to literature in languages that use the Latin script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+005A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Z
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Z
HTML Hex Encoding	Z
UTF-8 Encoding	0x5A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x005A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000005A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u005a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Narrow
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
Lowercase Code Point	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
Simple Case Folding	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
Case Folding	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
NFKC Simple Casefold	"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper