U+1E92 "Ẓ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ẓ
U+1E92 "Ẓ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Below is a specialized orthographic symbol used primarily in the transliteration and writing of various languages, including African languages like Berber, as well as in academic contexts for Semitic linguistics and Indic scripts. It represents a voiced retroflex fricative or a similar emphatic sound, distinguished from the standard "Z" by the diacritical dot beneath it, which often indicates a more retracted or pharyngealized articulation. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and serves as the uppercase counterpart to U+1E93 "ẓ," commonly employed in dictionaries, scholarly texts, and digital encoding for precise phonetic and linguistic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E92 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E92 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E92 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e92 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẓ" U+1E93 Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Below |
| 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 |