U+017E "ž" Latin Small Letter Z with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+017E "ž" Latin Small Letter Z with Caron is a modified version of the standard Latin letter Z, distinguished by a small wedge-shaped diacritic, the caron, placed above it, which is used in several languages to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in "pleasure" in English. It appears in the alphabets of languages such as Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian, where it is an integral part of the orthography and has its own alphabetical position. This character enables precise phonetic representation and distinguishes meaning in written texts, highlighting the importance of diacritics in capturing specific linguistic nuances.
General Properties
Code Point
U+017E
Name
Latin Small Letter Z with Caron
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter Z Hacek
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ž
HTML Hex Encoding
ž
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x017E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000017E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u017e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin