Also known as Z with acute
Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Silesian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Wymysorys and Brahui, as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Z with acute
- Grapheme.letter
- Ź ź
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter Z with acute - uppercase and lowercase.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 200px
- Grapheme.imagealt
- Upper and lower case of Ź
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- alphabet
- Grapheme.language
- Brahui language, Lower Sorbian language, Polish language, Romani language, Serbo-Croatian language, Silesian language
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0179, U+017A
- Grapheme.fam1
- Z z
- Grapheme.direction
- Left-to-right
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
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- Image
- Latin letter Z with acute.svg
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- Unicode character
- ź
- Commons category
- Ź
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Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Silesian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Wymysorys and Brahui, as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto.
== Usage == In Polish, the letter represents the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative ([ʑ]) sound. It is 31st letter of the Polish alphabet. Its names in the language are: ziet and z z kreską. The letter also appears in the digraph dź, which is pronounced as voiced alveolo-palatal affricate ([d͡ʑ]) sound.