U+2C7F "Ɀ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail Unicode Character
U+2C7F "Ɀ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail is a typographic variant of the standard capital Z, distinguished by an ornate, sweeping tail that extends below the baseline, historically used in certain styles of Latin script for decorative or calligraphic purposes. It is part of the Latin Extended C block, encoded for use in phonetic transcription and orthographies of several African languages, such as in the Gbaya and some Bantu languages, where it represents a specific sound distinct from the plain letter Z. This character also serves as a contrastive letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, denoting a voiced alveolar fricative with a different articulation, though its primary usage remains in African language writing systems to improve legibility and phonetic accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C7F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c7f |
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 | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| Case Folding | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɀ" U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail |
| 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 |