Latin Small Letter Z
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 122 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter z.
- Alt code
- Alt+122
- HTML entity
- z
- Unicode
- U+007A
About this symbol
The letter is called zed in British English and most of the English-speaking world, and zee in American English. Zee goes back to English dialects of the seventeenth century, and the American alphabet song, which rhymes it with “me”, helped it stick.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ƶ Latin Small Letter Z With Stroke U+01B6ᴢ Latin Letter Small Capital Z U+1D22
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.