U+017B "Ż" Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ż
U+017B "Ż" Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above is a distinct grapheme used primarily in Polish, where it represents a voiced retroflex sibilant sound similar to the English "zh," though it also appears in the romanization of several other languages and in historical orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+017B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Z Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ż |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ż |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x017B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000017B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u017b |
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 | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ż" U+017C Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| 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 |