Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet, in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed (), which is most commonly used in British English, and zee (), most commonly used in American English, with an occasional archaic variant izzard ().
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Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the Latin alphabet, used in English and many other languages worldwide. The letter's name differs by region, commonly called "zed" in British English and "zee" in American English.
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- Z
- Grapheme.letter
- Z z
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic and logographic
- Grapheme.language
- Latin language
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+005A, U+007A
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 26
- Grapheme.fam1
- Z4
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Zayin
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- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Zayin
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- Name
- History
- Semitic
- Greek
- Etruscan
- Latin
- Old English
- Last letter of the alphabet
- Typographic variants<span class="anchor" id="Variant and derived forms"></span>
- Use in writing systems
- English
- Other languages
- Other systems
- Other uses
- Related characters
- Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- Other representations
- <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span> Unicode
- Other
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet, in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed (), which is most commonly used in British English, and zee (), most commonly used in American English, with an occasional archaic variant izzard ().
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