U+2C6B "Ⱬ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⱬ
U+2C6B "Ⱬ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Descender is a modified Latin letter used in certain alphabets for transcribing languages such as Udmurt and other Uralic or Turkic languages, where it typically represents a voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the "zh" in "measure" but with a retroflex articulation. This character is formed by adding a descender, a stroke descending below the baseline, to the standard capital letter Z, distinguishing it from the plain Z and signaling a distinct phonetic value in specialized orthographies. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for linguistic and scholarly work requiring precise phonetic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C6B |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Descender |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c6b |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱬ" U+2C6C Latin Small Letter Z with Descender |
| 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 |