The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (, , , , ). It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase ž is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. In addition, ž is used as the romanisation of Cyrillic ж in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration.
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Ž is a letter formed by adding a small curved mark (called a caron) to the Latin letter Z, and it represents a specific consonant sound similar to the "s" in the English word "vision." This letter appears in various writing systems and languages, including romanized versions of Russian and other Slavic languages, as well as in specialized phonetic notation used by linguists.
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Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Že
- Grapheme.letter
- Ž ž
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.language
- Czech language, Slovak language, Silesian language, Polish language
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+017D, U+017E
- Grapheme.equivalents
- Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Latin, Polish, Perso-Arabic
- Grapheme.direction
- Left-to-Right
- Grapheme.fam1
- Z4
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Zayin
- Grapheme.fam3
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- Baltic languages
- Uralic languages
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The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (, , , , ). It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase ž is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. In addition, ž is used as the romanisation of Cyrillic ж in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration.
For use in computer systems, Ž and ž are at Unicode codepoints U+017D and U+017E, respectively. On Windows computers, it can be typed with Alt+0142 and Alt+0158, respectively.