U+1D22 "ᴢ" Latin Letter Small Capital Z Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᴢ
U+1D22 "ᴢ" Latin Letter Small Capital Z is a typographic variant of the standard lowercase "z," designed as a small capital letter that appears the same height as an uppercase Z but with the same relative size as lowercase letters. It belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block and is primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced alveolar fricative, though it has been largely replaced by the standard IPA symbol [z] in modern transcriptions. This character also appears in historical linguistic notations and certain orthographies where small capitals indicate specific phonological or grammatical distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D22 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Letter Small Capital Z |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d22 |