U+007A "z" Latin Small Letter Z Unicode Character

U+007A "z" Latin Small Letter Z is the twenty sixth and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the basic Latin script, representing a voiced alveolar fricative sound in phonetics. It is encoded in the ASCII range as a single byte value 122 in decimal, making it universally supported across digital systems. In typography, its lowercase form is typically a simple vertical stroke with a horizontal top and bottom, though stylistic variations like a looped tail or a crossed form appear in scripts such as blackletter or cursive. Historically, the letter derives from the Greek zeta via the Etruscan alphabet, and it plays a key role in words, mathematics, and computing, including its use as the third coordinate axis in three dimensional space.