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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/%C6%B7_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Ʒ (disambiguation)">Ʒ (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="/wiki/EZH_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="EZH (disambiguation)">EZH</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Esh_(letter)" title="Esh (letter)">esh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yogh" title="Yogh">yogh</a> (Ȝ), Greek <a href="/wiki/Zeta" title="Zeta">zeta</a> (ζ), <a href="/wiki/Abkhazian_Dze" title="Abkhazian Dze">Abkhazian Dze</a> (Ӡ), or the number <a href="/wiki/3" title="3">3</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background:lightblue; color:black;;">Ezh</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><span style="font-size: 4em; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: super; font-weight: normal;">Ʒ ʒ</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">(<a href="/wiki/Z#Related_characters" title="Z">See below</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tailed_z" class="mw-redirect" title="Tailed z">Typography</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Latin_letter_Ezh.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Writing cursive forms of Ʒ" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Latin_letter_Ezh.svg/250px-Latin_letter_Ezh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Latin_letter_Ezh.svg/330px-Latin_letter_Ezh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Latin_letter_Ezh.svg/400px-Latin_letter_Ezh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">Usage</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Writing system</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alphabet" title="Alphabet">Alphabetic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Logographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Logographic">Logographic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language of origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin language</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sound values</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1190286162">.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-2em ul,.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-3em ul{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-2em li,.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-3em li{display:inline-block;text-align:center;padding:0 0.25em}.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-2em li{min-width:1.5em}.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-3em li{min-width:2.5em}.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-abcd ul{border:1px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .template-grid-list-abcd li{display:inline-block;text-align:center;min-width:1.57em;padding:0}</style> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist template-grid-list-3em"><ul><li>[<span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">ʒ</a></span>]</li><li>[<span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiced alveolar affricate">d͡z</a></span>]</li><li>[<span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiced postalveolar affricate">d͡ʒ</a></span>]</li><li>[<span class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolo-palatal_affricate" title="Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate">d͡ʑ</a></span>]</li><li><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span></span>/</a></span></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><code>U+01B7, U+0292</code></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Development</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="font-size: 1.25em;"><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Z4.png?dbdf8" height="14" title="Z4" alt="Z4" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Proto-semiticZ-01.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Proto-Sinaitic Zayin"><img alt="Proto-Sinaitic Zayin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Proto-semiticZ-01.svg/20px-Proto-semiticZ-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Proto-semiticZ-01.svg/30px-Proto-semiticZ-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Proto-semiticZ-01.svg/40px-Proto-semiticZ-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Protozayn.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Protozayn.svg/20px-Protozayn.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Protozayn.svg/30px-Protozayn.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Protozayn.svg/40px-Protozayn.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="625" data-file-height="625" /></a></span><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Phoenician_zayin.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Phoenician Zayin"><img alt="Phoenician Zayin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Phoenician_zayin.svg/20px-Phoenician_zayin.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Phoenician_zayin.svg/30px-Phoenician_zayin.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Phoenician_zayin.svg/40px-Phoenician_zayin.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="85" data-file-height="85" /></a></span><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PhoenicianZ-01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/PhoenicianZ-01.svg/30px-PhoenicianZ-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/PhoenicianZ-01.svg/45px-PhoenicianZ-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/PhoenicianZ-01.svg/60px-PhoenicianZ-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Zeta" title="Zeta">Ζ ζ</a><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%8C%86" class="mw-redirect" title="𐌆">𐌆</a><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z z</a><ul style="margin-left:0.45em;"><li><b>Ʒ ʒ</b></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time period</th><td class="infobox-data">1847 to present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Descendants</th><td class="infobox-data"> • <a href="/wiki/%C6%B8" title="Ƹ">Ƹ</a><br /> • <a href="/wiki/%C7%AE" title="Ǯ">Ǯ</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sisters</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1190286162" /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist template-grid-list-3em"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">Ž</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D0%97" class="mw-redirect" title="З">З</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D0%85" class="mw-redirect" title="Ѕ">Ѕ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D4%90" class="mw-redirect" title="Ԑ">Ԑ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D4%86" class="mw-redirect" title="Ԇ">Ԇ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D2%98" class="mw-redirect" title="Ҙ">Ҙ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%EA%99%84" class="mw-redirect" title="Ꙅ">ꙅ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin">ז</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin">ز</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin">ܙ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%DA%98" class="mw-redirect" title="ژ">ژ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E0%A0%86" class="mw-redirect" title="ࠆ">ࠆ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%8B%98" class="mw-redirect" title="ዘ">ዘ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%8E%87" class="mw-redirect" title="𐎇">𐎇</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D4%B6" class="extiw" title="wikt:Զ">Զ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D4%B6" class="mw-redirect" title="Զ">զ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%8F%83" class="mw-redirect" title="Ꮓ">Ꮓ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%8F%8B" class="mw-redirect" title="Ꮛ">Ꮛ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%8F%A8" class="mw-redirect" title="Ꮸ">Ꮸ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E0%AA%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="ડ">ડ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E0%AA%A2" class="mw-redirect" title="ઢ">ઢ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jha_(Indic)" title="Jha (Indic)">झ़</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Transliterations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Zh_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zh (digraph)">zh</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">ž</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Variations</th><td class="infobox-data">(<a href="/wiki/Z#Related_characters" title="Z">See below</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tailed_z" class="mw-redirect" title="Tailed z">Typography</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Associated graphs</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#Z" title="List of Latin-script digraphs">z(x)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zh_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zh (digraph)">zh</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">ž</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Writing direction</th><td class="infobox-data">Left-to-Right</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint selfref" style="background:#ddf; padding:0.3em 0.5em;text-align:left;line-height:1.3;">This article contains <b><a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA)</b>. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ /</span> and ⟨<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"> </span>⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ezh</b> (<b>Ʒ ʒ</b>) <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span></span>/</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/9\/9f\/En-us-ezh.ogg\/En-us-ezh.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"En-us-ezh.ogg"},"classes":["noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9f/En-us-ezh.ogg/En-us-ezh.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:En-us-ezh.ogg" title="File:En-us-ezh.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">EZH</span></i></a>, also called the "<b>tailed z</b>", is a letter, notable for its use in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA) to represent the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">voiced postalveolar fricative</a> consonant. This sound, sometimes transcribed /zh/, occurs in the pronunciation of <span class="nowrap">⟨si⟩</span> in <i>vision</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span> and <i>precision</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>, the <span class="nowrap">⟨s⟩</span> in <i>treasure</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span>, and the <span class="nowrap">⟨g⟩</span> in <i>beige</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span></span>/</a></span></span>. </p><p>Ezh is also used as a letter in some orthographies of <a href="/wiki/Laz_language" title="Laz language">Laz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skolt_Sami_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Skolt Sami language">Skolt Sami</a>, both by itself, and with a <a href="/wiki/Caron" title="Caron">caron</a> (⟨Ǯ⟩ ⟨ǯ⟩). In Laz, these represent voiceless alveolar <a href="/wiki/Affricate" title="Affricate">affricate</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ts/</span> and its <a href="/wiki/Ejective_consonant" title="Ejective consonant">ejective</a> counterpart <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tsʼ/</span>, respectively. In Skolt Sami they respectively denote partially voiced alveolar and post-alveolar affricates, broadly represented <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/dz/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/dʒ/</span>. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, for example in the <a href="/wiki/Aja_language_(Niger-Congo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aja language (Niger-Congo)">Aja language</a> of <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dagbani_language" title="Dagbani language">Dagbani language</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected <a href="/wiki/Sigma" title="Sigma">sigma</a> ⟨<span style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.05em;transform:matrix(-1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);">Σ</span>⟩. It also appears in the orthography of <a href="/wiki/Uropi" title="Uropi">Uropi</a>. </p><p>The zh <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʒ/</span> sound is represented by various letters in different languages, such as the letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">Ž</a>⟩ as used in many <a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic languages</a>, the letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C5%BB" title="Ż">Ż</a>⟩ as used in <a href="/wiki/Kashubian_language" title="Kashubian language">Kashubian</a>, the letter ⟨<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/%D8%AC" class="mw-redirect" title="ج">ج</a></span></span>⟩ in a number of <a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">Arabic dialects</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Persian_alphabet" title="Persian alphabet">Persian alphabet</a> letter ⟨<span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa"><a href="/wiki/%C5%BDe" title="Že">ژ</a></span></span>⟩, the <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> letter ⟨<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/Zhe_(Cyrillic)" title="Zhe (Cyrillic)">Ж</a></span></span>⟩, the <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> letter (<a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%9D%E0%A4%BC" class="mw-redirect" title="झ़">झ़</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Esperanto" title="Esperanto">Esperanto</a> letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C4%B4" title="Ĵ">Ĵ</a>⟩. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a phonetic symbol, it originates with <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Pitman" title="Isaac Pitman">Isaac Pitman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/English_Phonotypic_Alphabet" title="English Phonotypic Alphabet">English Phonotypic Alphabet</a> in 1847, as a <i>z</i> with an added hook. The symbol is based on <a href="/wiki/Gothic_minuscule" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic minuscule">medieval cursive</a> forms of Latin ⟨<a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">z</a>⟩, evolving into the <a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">blackletter</a> ⟨z⟩ letter. In Unicode, however, the blackletter ⟨<span title="German-language text"><span lang="de-Latf">z</span></span>⟩ ("<a href="/wiki/Z#Variant_and_derived_forms" title="Z">tailed z</a>", German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">geschwänztes Z</i></span>) is considered a glyph variant of ⟨z⟩, and not an ezh. Humanist <a href="/wiki/Gian_Giorgio_Trissino" title="Gian Giorgio Trissino">Gian Giorgio Trissino</a> proposed in 1524 a reform of <a href="/wiki/Italian_orthography" title="Italian orthography">Italian orthography</a> introducing ezh as an uppercase <span class="nowrap">⟨<a href="/wiki/%C3%87" title="Ç">ç</a>⟩</span> for the <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[dz]</span> sound.<sup id="cite_ref-Trissino_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trissino-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In contexts where "tailed z" is used in contrast to tail-less z, notably in standard transcription of <a href="/wiki/Middle_High_German" title="Middle High German">Middle High German</a>, Unicode ⟨ʒ⟩ is sometimes used, strictly speaking incorrectly. Unicode offers ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C8%A4" title="Ȥ">ȥ</a>⟩ "z with hook" as a grapheme for Middle High German coronal fricative instead. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similarities_to_other_glyphs">Similarities to other glyphs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Similarities to other glyphs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Ezh" title="Special:EditPage/Ezh">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yogh">Yogh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Yogh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Unicode_1.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode 1.0">Unicode 1.0</a>, the character was unified with the unrelated character <a href="/wiki/Yogh" title="Yogh">yogh</a> ⟨Ȝ ȝ⟩, which was not correctly added to Unicode until Unicode 3.0. Historically, ezh is derived from Latin ⟨<a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">z</a>⟩, but yogh is derived from Latin ⟨<a href="/wiki/G" title="G">g</a>⟩ by way of <a href="/wiki/Insular_G" title="Insular G">insular G</a>. The characters look very similar and do not appear alongside each other in any alphabet. To differentiate between the two more clearly, the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Early_English_Text_Society" title="Early English Text Society">Early English Text Society</a> extend the uppermost tip of the yogh into a little curvature upward.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Numeral_three">Numeral three</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Numeral three"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ezh looks similar to the common form of the <a href="/wiki/3_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="3 (number)">figure three</a> ⟨3⟩. To differentiate between the two characters, ezh includes the sharp zigzag of the letter ⟨z⟩, while the number is usually curved. Some typefaces use a form of ⟨3⟩ with a flat top, very similar (or virtually identical) to an ezh.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In handwritten Cyrillic, the numeral ⟨3⟩ is sometimes written in a form similar to the ezh, so as to distinguish it from the letter <a href="/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic)" title="Ze (Cyrillic)">ze</a> ⟨З⟩.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hiragana_ro">Hiragana ro</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hiragana ro"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E3%82%8D-bw.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/%E3%82%8D-bw.png" decoding="async" width="166" height="100" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="166" data-file-height="100" /></a><figcaption>Stroke order in writing ろ (Japanese hiragana)</figcaption></figure> <p>Ezh looks similar to the <a href="/wiki/Syllabogram" title="Syllabogram">syllabogram</a> ⟨<a href="/wiki/Ro_(kana)" title="Ro (kana)">ろ</a>⟩, which is the hiragana form of the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)" title="Mora (linguistics)">mora</a> <i>ro</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cyrillic_ze_and_dze">Cyrillic ze and dze</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cyrillic ze and dze"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cyrillic letter <a href="/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic)" title="Ze (Cyrillic)">ze</a> ⟨З з⟩ has a similar body to Ezh and the <a href="/wiki/Abkhazian_dze" class="mw-redirect" title="Abkhazian dze">Abkhazian dze</a> ⟨Ӡ ӡ⟩. As customary, the Cyrillic script has a stiffer structure, but both letters have common roots in historical cursive forms of the Greek letter <a href="/wiki/Zeta" title="Zeta">zeta</a> ⟨Ζ ζ⟩.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>However, Latin ezh and Cyrillic ze represent different phonemes: the former generally represents <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʒ/</span>, while the latter represents /z/. Cyrillic uses <a href="/wiki/Zhe_(Cyrillic)" title="Zhe (Cyrillic)">zhe</a> ⟨Ж ж⟩ for the /ʒ/ phoneme.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="skin-invert-image"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:408px;max-width:408px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Unicode_0x01B7.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The capital as a large lower-case letter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Unicode_0x01B7.svg/200px-Unicode_0x01B7.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Unicode_0x01B7.svg/300px-Unicode_0x01B7.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Unicode_0x01B7.svg/400px-Unicode_0x01B7.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The capital as a reversed Greek capital sigma" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg/200px-Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg/300px-Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg/400px-Unicode_0x01B7_reversed_sigma_character_variant.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The two West African forms of the capital letter ezh (Ʒ and <span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">Σ</span></span>)</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language_orthographies">Language orthographies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Language orthographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Trissino's reform did not prosper in relation to the <span class="nowrap">⟨z⟩</span>. </p><p>In the IPA it represents the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">voiced postalveolar fricative</a> consonant. For example: <i>vision</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ʒ/: 's' in 'pleasure'">ʒ</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>. It is pronounced as the ⟨s⟩ in "treasure" or the ⟨si⟩ in the word "precision". </p><p>It is used with that value in <a href="/wiki/Uropi" title="Uropi">Uropi</a>. </p><p>It is used in the "International Standard" orthography, as devised by Marcel Courthiade for <a href="/wiki/Romani_alphabets" title="Romani alphabets">Romani</a>. </p><p>It was also used in an obsolete Latin alphabet for writing <a href="/wiki/Komi_language" title="Komi language">Komi</a>, where it represented <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[d͡ʑ]</span> (similar to English ⟨j⟩). In the modern Cyrillic alphabet, this sound is written as "дз". </p><p>It was also used during <a href="/wiki/Latinisation_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Latinisation in the Soviet Union">Latinisation in the USSR</a> in the project of <a href="/wiki/Unified_Northern_Alphabet" title="Unified Northern Alphabet">Unified Northern Alphabet</a> and other alphabets of the people of the Soviet Union during the 1920–1930s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ezh_as_an_abbreviation_for_dram">Ezh as an abbreviation for dram</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Ezh as an abbreviation for dram"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>, a standard designed to allow symbols from all writing systems to be represented and manipulated by computers, the ezh is also used as the symbol to represent the abbreviation for <a href="/wiki/Dram_(unit)" title="Dram (unit)">dram</a> or drachm, an <a href="/wiki/Apothecaries%27_system" title="Apothecaries' system">apothecaries' system</a> <a href="/wiki/Units_of_measurement" class="mw-redirect" title="Units of measurement">unit</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mass" title="Mass">mass</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unicode has no dedicated symbol for dram,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the Unicode code table entry for ezh reads "LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH = dram sign".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The upper-case letter <i>z</i> in <a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">Blackletter</a>/<a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a> hand, <span style="font-size:120%"><span class="texhtml">ℨ</span></span>, is also seen used for dram, but this letter is meant to be used in mathematics and phonetics, and is not recommended as an abbreviation for dram. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encoding_and_ligatures">Encoding and ligatures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Encoding and ligatures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> code points are <code>U+01B7</code> for ⟨Ʒ⟩ and <code>U+0292</code> for ⟨ʒ⟩. <a href="/wiki/%C7%AE" title="Ǯ">Ezh with caron</a> is also <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed</a> in <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> with the code points <code>U+01EE</code> for ⟨Ǯ⟩ and <code>U+01EF</code> for ⟨ǯ⟩. </p><p>The IPA historically allowed for ezh to be <a href="/wiki/Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">ligatured</a> to other letters; some of these ligatures have been added to the Unicode standard. </p> <ul><li>Dezh ligatures ezh with the letter D (<span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+02A4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ʤ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH</span>).</li> <li>Lezh ligatures ezh with the letter L (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+026E</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ɮ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH</span>).</li> <li>Tezh ligatures ezh with the letter T (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+A728</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">Ꜩ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TZ</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+A729</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꜩ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER TZ</span>).</li></ul> <p>Related <a href="/wiki/Obsolete_and_nonstandard_symbols_in_the_International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet">obsolete IPA characters</a> include <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+01BA</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ƺ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH TAIL</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+0293</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ʓ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CURL</span>. </p><p><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+1DBE</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ᶾ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">MODIFIER LETTER SMALL EZH</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+1D9A</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ᶚ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</span> are also used for phonetic transcription.<sup id="cite_ref-L204132_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L204132-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+1D23</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ᴣ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EZH</span> is used in the <a href="/wiki/Uralic_Phonetic_Alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Uralic Phonetic Alphabet">Uralic Phonetic Alphabet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+1DF18</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">𝼘</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK</span> was previously used in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup id="cite_ref-L220125_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220125-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-L221021_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L221021-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Typing_character">Typing character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Typing character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For Mac: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Option⌥</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">:</kbd>, followed by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Z</kbd> or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Z</kbd> respectively. </p><p>For Windows (Sámi Keyboard Layout): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">AltGr</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">B</kbd>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unified_Northern_Alphabet" title="Unified Northern Alphabet">Unified Northern Alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C6%B8" title="Ƹ">Reversed Ezh</a> (Ƹ ƹ)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abkhazian_Dze" title="Abkhazian Dze">Abkhazian Dze</a> (<span style="font-size:190%;">Ӡ ӡ</span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic)" title="Ze (Cyrillic)">Cyrillic Ze</a> (<span style="font-size:190%;">З з</span>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezh&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Range: 0250–02AF"</a> The Unicode Standard, Version 15.1. 2023.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-L204132-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-L204132_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFConstable2004" class="citation web cs1">Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf">"L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=L2%2F04-132+Proposal+to+add+additional+phonetic+characters+to+the+UCS&rft.date=2004-04-19&rft.aulast=Constable&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2FL2%2FL2004%2F04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEzh" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFEverson2002" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Everson" title="Michael Everson">Everson, Michael</a>; et al. 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href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20125r-ipa-retroflex.pdf">"L2/20-125R: Unicode request for expected IPA retroflex letters and similar letters with hooks"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=L2%2F20-125R%3A+Unicode+request+for+expected+IPA+retroflex+letters+and+similar+letters+with+hooks&rft.date=2020-07-11&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=Kirk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2FL2%2FL2020%2F20125r-ipa-retroflex.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEzh" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-L221021-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-L221021_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAnderson2020" class="citation web cs1">Anderson, Deborah (2020-12-07). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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href="/wiki/%E1%B5%98" class="mw-redirect" title="ᵘ">ᵘ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%B6" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶶ">ᶶ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%E1%B5%9B" class="mw-redirect" title="ᵛ">ᵛ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%CA%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="ʷ">ʷ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%CA%B8" class="mw-redirect" title="ʸ">ʸ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%BB" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶻ">ᶻ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%BF" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶿ">ᶿ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/%EA%9C%A2" class="mw-redirect" title="Ꜣ">Ꜣ ꜣ</a></span> </td> 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style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""></span> 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title="Z̀">Z̀z̀</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%90" title="Ẑ">Ẑẑ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">Žž</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%BB" title="Ż">Żż</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%92" title="Ẓ">Ẓẓ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%94" class="mw-redirect" title="Ẕ">Ẕẕ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/Z_with_stroke" title="Z with stroke">Ƶƶ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C8%A4" title="Ȥ">Ȥȥ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E2%B1%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Ⱬ">Ⱬⱬ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E2%B1%BF" class="mw-redirect" title="Ɀ">Ɀɀ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%EA%9F%86" class="mw-redirect" title="Ᶎ">Ᶎᶎ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B5%B6" class="mw-redirect" title="ᵶ">ᵶ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%CA%90" class="mw-redirect" title="ʐ">ʐ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%CA%91" class="mw-redirect" title="ʑ">ʑ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin-script_multigraph" title="Latin-script multigraph">Multigraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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