U+0417 "З" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0417 "З" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze is a letter in the Cyrillic script, representing the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/ similar to the English letter Z. It is used in numerous languages that employ the Cyrillic alphabet, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, among others. Historically, it derives from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ), though its shape evolved to resemble a reversed or rotated form of the numeral three, distinguishing it from its Greek antecedent. In modern typography, it appears as a symmetric, curved character with a distinct upper and lower horizontal stroke, and it occupies position 7 in the standard Russian alphabet order.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0417
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
З
HTML Hex Encoding
З
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD0 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0417
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000417
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0417
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic