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Ż, ż (Z with overdot) is a letter, consisting of the letter Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and an overdot.

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Grapheme.name
Z with overdot
Grapheme.letter
Ż ż
Grapheme.image
Latin letter Z with dot above.svg
Grapheme.imageclass
skin-invert-image
Grapheme.language
Kashubian, Maltese, Polish, Silesian
Grapheme.alphanumber
32
Grapheme.type
alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.phonemes
, , , , ,
Grapheme.fam1
Z z
Grapheme.equivalents
Ƶ ƶ

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Latin letter Z with dot above - uppercase and lowercase.svg
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ż
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Ż
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  • Polish
  • Kashubian
  • Maltese
  • Emilian-Romagnol
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Ż, ż (Z with overdot) is a letter, consisting of the letter Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and an overdot.

== Usage == ===Polish=== thumb|right|250px|Signage on Polish municipal police () cars uses both the standard form (Ż, on the door) and the variant with horizontal stroke ([[Ƶ, on the roof sign)]] thumb|right|250px|Żubr (beer)|Żubr beer - crossed variant of the letter Ż: [[Ƶ]] In the Polish language, ż is the final, 32nd letter of the alphabet. It typically represents the voiced retroflex fricative (), somewhat similar to the pronunciation of in "mirae"; however, in a word-final position or when followed by a voiceless obstruent, it is devoiced to the voiceless retroflex fricative ().

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