U+01B7 "Ʒ" Latin Capital Letter Ezh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+01B7 "Ʒ" Latin Capital Letter Ezh is a letter used in several languages and phonetic transcription systems, primarily representing a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in the English word "measure" or the "g" in "mirage." Its lowercase form is "ʒ" (U+0292), and it is most notably employed in the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it symbolizes the same consonant. Beyond phonetics, the Ezh appears in the orthographies of specific languages, such as Skolt Sami and some African languages, where it often denotes a distinct sound not captured by the standard Latin alphabet. Additionally, it is sometimes used in English-based creative writing or as a typographic variant of the yogh (Ȝ) in historical contexts, though the two characters have different origins and Unicode assignments.

General Properties

Code Point U+01B7
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Capital Letter Ezh
Unicode 1.0 Name Latin Capital Letter Yogh
Block Latin Extended-B
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ʒ
HTML Hex Encoding Ʒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC6 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x01B7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000001B7
C/C++/Java Escape \u01b7

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 "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
Lowercase Code Point "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
Simple Case Folding "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
Case Folding "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh
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