Ż, ż (Z with overdot) is a letter, consisting of the letter Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and an overdot.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Z with overdot
- Grapheme.letter
- Ż ż
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter Z with dot above.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.language
- Kashubian, Maltese, Polish, Silesian
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 32
- Grapheme.type
- alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.phonemes
- , , , , ,
- Grapheme.fam1
- Z z
- Grapheme.equivalents
- Ƶ ƶ
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Ż, ż (Z with overdot) is a letter, consisting of the letter Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and an overdot.
== Usage == ===Polish=== thumb|right|250px|Signage on Polish municipal police () cars uses both the standard form (Ż, on the door) and the variant with horizontal stroke ([[Ƶ, on the roof sign)]] thumb|right|250px|Żubr (beer)|Żubr beer - crossed variant of the letter Ż: [[Ƶ]] In the Polish language, ż is the final, 32nd letter of the alphabet. It typically represents the voiced retroflex fricative (), somewhat similar to the pronunciation of in "mirae"; however, in a word-final position or when followed by a voiceless obstruent, it is devoiced to the voiceless retroflex fricative ().