U+A7C6 "" Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+A7C6 "" Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook is a specialized letter used primarily in certain historical and linguistic orthographies to represent a palatalized Z sound, where the addition of a hook beneath the letter indicates a palatal or palatalized articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended D block and is part of a set of characters designed for transcribing Slavic or other languages where palatalization is phonemic, though it is rarely found in modern common use. The character serves as an uppercase form for extended Latin scripts, enabling precise representation of phonetic distinctions in scholarly or archival texts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+A7C6
Name
Latin Capital Letter Z with Palatal Hook

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ᶎ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ᶎ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9F 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA7C6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A7C6
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua7c6