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U+017C · LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE

Latin Small Letter Z with Dot Above

  • CodepointU+017C
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
  • Decimal380
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+017C (ż) is LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+017B Ż.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+007A z + U+0307 ◌̇, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type ż

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C5 BC2 bytes
UTF-16017C1 code unit
UTF-320000017C4 bytes
HTML namedżnamed character reference
HTML decimalż
HTML hexż
CSS\17Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u017C
JSON\u017C
Python\u017C
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u017C
C / C++\u017Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{17C}
Go\u017C
Ruby\u017C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(380)
URL-encoded%C5%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+007A z + U+0307 ◌̇
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+007A z + U+0307 ◌̇
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0176ŶLatin Capital Letter Y with Circumflex U+0177ŷLatin Small Letter Y with Circumflex U+0178ŸLatin Capital Letter Y with Diaeresis U+0179ŹLatin Capital Letter Z with Acute U+017AźLatin Small Letter Z with Acute U+017BŻLatin Capital Letter Z with Dot Above U+017DŽLatin Capital Letter Z with Caron U+017EžLatin Small Letter Z with Caron U+017FſLatin Small Letter Long S