U+1E94 "Ẕ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ẕ
U+1E94 "Ẕ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Line Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription and transliteration systems, particularly in the context of Uralic and Semitic linguistics. It represents a voiced or emphasized version of the standard letter Z, where the line below serves as a diacritic to indicate a specific phonetic quality such as a fricative or pharyngealized articulation. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in scholarly texts where precise orthographic distinction is necessary, though it is rarely found in common writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E94 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E94 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e94 |
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 | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẕ" U+1E95 Latin Small Letter Z with Line 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 |