U+0417 "З" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
З
U+0417 "З" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze is a letter in the Cyrillic script, representing the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/ similar to the English letter Z. It is used in numerous languages that employ the Cyrillic alphabet, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, among others. Historically, it derives from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ), though its shape evolved to resemble a reversed or rotated form of the numeral three, distinguishing it from its Greek antecedent. In modern typography, it appears as a symmetric, curved character with a distinct upper and lower horizontal stroke, and it occupies position 7 in the standard Russian alphabet order.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0417 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | З |
| HTML Hex Encoding | З |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0417 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000417 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0417 |
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 |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Lowercase Code Point | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Simple Case Folding | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Case Folding | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "з" U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |