Ȥ

Z with hook in Doulos SIL

Z with hook, Ȥ (minuscule: ȥ) is a letter of the Latin script.

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The Unicode standard notes "Middle High German" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the coronal fricative /s/ also transcribed as tailed z ⟨ʒ⟩. The ⟨ȥ⟩-character is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of ⟨z⟩ pronounced as [s] (in such a case, modern German now uses ⟨s⟩). In contrast, the ⟨z⟩-character is pronounced as /ts/, as is still the case in modern German. And the ⟨s⟩-character is pronounced as /z/.

  • z and ȥ in Schade (1868).
    z and ȥ in Schade (1868).
  • "sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
    "sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
  • Italic z and ȥ in Paul (1918).
    Italic z and ȥ in Paul (1918).

Computing codes

This letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.

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