U+017A "ź" Latin Small Letter Z with Acute Unicode Character
U+017A "ź" Latin Small Letter Z with Acute is a precomposed character in the Latin script, formed by combining the base letter "z" with an acute accent diacritic, which indicates a specific pronunciation in various languages. It is used primarily in Polish, where it represents a voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the "zh" in "measure," as well as in other languages like Kashubian and Upper Sorbian. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is the lowercase form of the uppercase U+0179 "Ź." In Unicode, it can also be represented as the sequence of a base "z" (U+007A) followed by the combining acute accent (U+0301), though the precomposed version is commonly preferred for compatibility and simplicity in text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+017A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Z with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Z Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ź |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ź |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x017A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000017A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u017a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ź" U+0179 Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ź" U+0179 Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ź" U+0179 Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ź" U+0179 Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute |
| 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 |