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Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in the Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other languages:

  • Slavic languages - usually the palatalized form of /z/
  • Polish language - [ʑ] (voiced alveolo-palatal fricative)
  • Montenegrin language - along with the digraph "zj"
  • In the Belarusian Łacinka for зь /zʲ/
  • Lower Sorbian language [ʑ]
  • In the Romanization of Pashto, it is used to represent voiced alveolar affricate (d͡z).
  • In Emiliano-Romagnolo alphabet, it is used to represent voiced dental fricative [ð]. Depending on the various dialects, the pronunciation can be [ðz], or, under Italian influence, [dz], but the most common pronunciation is [ð].
  • Encodings

    The HTML codes are:

  • Ź for Ź (upper case)
  • ź for ź (lower case)
  • The Unicode codepoints are U+0179 for Ź and U+017A for ź.

    References

    Ź Wikipedia


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