U+0292 "ʒ" Latin Small Letter Ezh Unicode Character

U+0292 "ʒ" Latin Small Letter Ezh is a distinct letter used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative sound, as heard in the English word "measure" or the French "je". It originated as a cursive adaptation of the Latin letter Z, and its uppercase form is the "Ʒ" Ezh, which should not be confused with the similar-looking numeral 3. Beyond phonetics, Ezh appears in the alphabets of several indigenous languages, including those spoken in Africa and the Americas, and is also employed in constructed languages for precise sound representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0292
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Ezh
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter Yogh
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ʒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ʒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCA 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0292
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000292
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0292

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	"Ʒ" U+01B7 Latin Capital Letter Ezh
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ʒ" U+01B7 Latin Capital Letter Ezh
Uppercase Code Point	"Ʒ" U+01B7 Latin Capital Letter Ezh
Titlecase Code Point	"Ʒ" U+01B7 Latin Capital Letter Ezh
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