U+017C "ż" Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ż
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+017C "ż" Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above is a precomposed accented letter used in the Polish alphabet, where it represents a voiced retroflex sibilant sound similar to the English "j" in "jam." It also appears in several other languages, including Maltese and the romanization of Arabic and Pashto, and is occasionally used in old or dialectal English texts. This character is distinct from the letter "z" combined with a combining dot above, and it has a corresponding uppercase form at U+017B "Ż."

General Properties

Code Point
U+017C
Name
Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter Z Dot

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ż
HTML Hex Encoding
ż
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x017C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000017C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u017c