U+01B5 "Ƶ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ƶ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+01B5 "Ƶ" Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke is a modified version of the standard Latin letter Z, distinguished by a horizontal line or stroke through its middle. This character has diverse historical and technical uses, including in medieval and modern orthographies for transcribing certain Slavic and Germanic languages, as well as in mathematical notation to represent specific sets or operations. In contemporary computing and typography, it is sometimes employed in logos, creative writing, or as a stylistic variant to differentiate the letter Z from the numeral 2, although it remains less common in everyday text.

General Properties

Code Point
U+01B5
Name
Latin Capital Letter Z with Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter Z Bar

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ƶ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ƶ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC6 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x01B5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000001B5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u01b5