Latin Small Letter Z With Caron
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0158 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter z with caron.
- Alt code
- Alt+0158
- HTML entity
- ž
- Unicode
- U+017E
About this symbol
Ž, z with a háček, sounds like the s in pleasure. It is used in Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, Lithuanian and Latvian, all following the Czech idea of marking sounds with a háček instead of letter pairs.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Slovak, Slovenian, and many other languages
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