U+0179 "Ź" Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute Unicode Character

U+0179 "Ź" Latin Capital Letter Z with Acute is a precomposed diacritical variant used in several Central and Eastern European languages, most prominently in Polish, where it represents a voiced retroflex fricative sound similar to the English "zh" as in "treasure." It also appears in the Silesian and Upper Sorbian alphabets, and its lowercase counterpart is U+017A "ź." The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode and is typically typed using dedicated keyboard layouts or by combining a standard Z with the combining acute accent (U+0301), though the precomposed form ensures consistent rendering and proper sorting in digital text.