Latin Capital Letter Z
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 90 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter z.
- Alt code
- Alt+90
- HTML entity
- Z
- Unicode
- U+005A
About this symbol
Z comes from the Greek zeta. The Romans dropped it in the third century BC, when the sound had disappeared from Latin, and later brought it back for Greek words, adding it at the end of the alphabet. British English calls it zed and American English zee.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.