U+01B5 "Ƶ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ƶ
U+01B5 "Ƶ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke is a modified version of the standard Latin letter Z, distinguished by a horizontal line or stroke through its middle. This character has diverse historical and technical uses, including in medieval and modern orthographies for transcribing certain Slavic and Germanic languages, as well as in mathematical notation to represent specific sets or operations. In contemporary computing and typography, it is sometimes employed in logos, creative writing, or as a stylistic variant to differentiate the letter Z from the numeral 2, although it remains less common in everyday text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01B5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Z Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01b5 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƶ" U+01B6 Latin Small Letter Z with Stroke |
| 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 |