U+A7C6 "Ᶎ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ᶎ
U+A7C6 "Ᶎ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook is a specialized letter used primarily in certain historical and linguistic orthographies to represent a palatalized Z sound, where the addition of a hook beneath the letter indicates a palatal or palatalized articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended D block and is part of a set of characters designed for transcribing Slavic or other languages where palatalization is phonemic, though it is rarely found in modern common use. The character serves as an uppercase form for extended Latin scripts, enabling precise representation of phonetic distinctions in scholarly or archival texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7C6 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ᶎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ᶎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7c6 |
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 | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| Case Folding | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᶎ" U+1D8E Latin Small Letter Z with Palatal Hook |
| 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 |