U+017C "ż" Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ż
U+017C "ż" Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above is a precomposed accented letter used in the Polish alphabet, where it represents a voiced retroflex sibilant sound similar to the English "j" in "jam." It also appears in several other languages, including Maltese and the romanization of Arabic and Pashto, and is occasionally used in old or dialectal English texts. This character is distinct from the letter "z" combined with a combining dot above, and it has a corresponding uppercase form at U+017B "Ż."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+017C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Z Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ż |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ż |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x017C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000017C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u017c |
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 | "Ż" U+017B Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ż" U+017B Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ż" U+017B Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ż" U+017B Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above |
| 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 |