U+0240 "ɀ" Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail Unicode Character

U+0240 "ɀ" Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail is a rare typographic variant of the Latin letter Z, distinguished by an ornamental, curved descender resembling a swash or tail that extends below the baseline. Historically used in certain phonetic notations and early African linguistic transcriptions, it appears in specialized contexts such as the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet and older orthographies for languages like Shona. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can access this character for historical or technical text, though it remains largely obscure outside of academic or linguistic discussions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0240
Version Added	4.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0240
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000240
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0240

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ɀ" U+2C7F Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɀ" U+2C7F Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɀ" U+2C7F Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɀ" U+2C7F Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail
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