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U+017E · LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON

Latin Small Letter Z with Caron

  • CodepointU+017E
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
  • Decimal382
  • 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+017E (ž) is LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON, 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+017D Ž.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+007A z + U+030C ◌̌, 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 ž

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C5 BE2 bytes
UTF-16017E1 code unit
UTF-320000017E4 bytes
HTML namedžnamed character reference
HTML decimalž
HTML hexž
CSS\17Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u017E
JSON\u017E
Python\u017E
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON}by name
Java / C#\u017E
C / C++\u017Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{17E}
Go\u017E
Ruby\u017E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(382)
URL-encoded%C5%BEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+007A z + U+030C ◌̌
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+007A z + U+030C ◌̌
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Characters built on ž

U+01C5DžLatin Capital Letter D with Small Letter Z with Caron U+01C6džLatin Small Letter Dz with Caron
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
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+017CżLatin Small Letter Z with Dot Above U+017DŽLatin Capital Letter Z with Caron U+017FſLatin Small Letter Long S