U+0179 "Ź" Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0179 "Ź" Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute is a precomposed diacritical variant used in several Central and Eastern European languages, most prominently in Polish, where it represents a voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the English "zh" as in "treasure." It also appears in the Silesian and Upper Sorbian alphabets, and its lowercase counterpart is U+017A "ź." The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode and is typically typed using dedicated keyboard layouts or by combining a standard Z with the combining acute accent (U+0301), though the precomposed form ensures consistent rendering and proper sorting in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0179 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Z Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ź |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ź |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0179 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000179 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0179 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ź" U+017A Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| 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 |