U+017E "ž" Latin Small Letter Z with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+017E "ž" Latin Small Letter Z with Caron is a modified version of the standard Latin letter Z, distinguished by a small wedge-shaped diacritic, the caron, placed above it, which is used in several languages to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in "pleasure" in English. It appears in the alphabets of languages such as Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian, where it is an integral part of the orthography and has its own alphabetical position. This character enables precise phonetic representation and distinguishes meaning in written texts, highlighting the importance of diacritics in capturing specific linguistic nuances.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+017E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Z with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Z Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ž |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ž |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x017E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000017E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u017e |
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 | "Ž" U+017D Latin Capital Letter Z with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ž" U+017D Latin Capital Letter Z with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ž" U+017D Latin Capital Letter Z with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ž" U+017D Latin Capital Letter Z with Caron |
| 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 |