U+007A "z" Latin Small Letter Z Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

z

U+007A "z" Latin Small Letter Z is the twenty sixth and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the basic Latin script, representing a voiced alveolar fricative sound in phonetics. It is encoded in the ASCII range as a single byte value 122 in decimal, making it universally supported across digital systems. In typography, its lowercase form is typically a simple vertical stroke with a horizontal top and bottom, though stylistic variations like a looped tail or a crossed form appear in scripts such as blackletter or cursive. Historically, the letter derives from the Greek zeta via the Etruscan alphabet, and it plays a key role in words, mathematics, and computing, including its use as the third coordinate axis in three dimensional space.

General Properties

Code Point U+007A
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter Z
Block Basic Latin
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding z
HTML Hex Encoding z
UTF-8 Encoding 0x7A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x007A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000007A
C/C++/Java Escape \u007a

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
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z
Uppercase Code Point "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z
Titlecase Code Point "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
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 Lower