U+0437 "з" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+0437 "з" Cyrillic Small Letter Ze is the lowercase form of the seventh letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, corresponding closely to the Latin letter Z in both shape and sound, as it typically represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in languages like Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. Its uppercase counterpart is the Cyrillic Capital Letter Ze (U+0417). Historically derived from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ), the glyph for "з" has a rounded, cursive appearance that distinguishes it from the similar-looking numeral three, and it remains an essential component in the orthography of many Slavic and non Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic script.