Black-Letter Capital Z ℨ
Symbol Meaning
The Gothic-style italic capital “Z” resembles one of the symbols belonging to the extended Latin alphabet — Capital Letter Yogh Ȝ . This letter was used in Middle English and Middle Scots languages which existed till the middle of the last millennium. It represented the sound ] and it was commonly found in the written sources. During the Middle Ages the Yough letter gave way to more familiar letters. If you ask Slavic language speakers, they will tell you that this symbol reminds them of the Cyrillic Z letter (which looks like this: З).
Nowadays, “Black-Letter Capital Z” is one of the characters used for text decoration. This ancient letter might come in handy in articles on the history of the English language. Compare it with letters from other blocks of Unicode: Ӡ , Ҙ , 𝖅 .
The symbol “Black-Letter Capital Z” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Black-Letter Capital Z |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℨ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2128 |
| Simple case change | 2128 |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Uppercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 A8 | 226 132 168 | 14845096 | 11100010 10000100 10101000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 28 | 33 40 | 8488 | 00100001 00101000 |
| UTF-16LE | 28 21 | 40 33 | 10273 | 00101000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 28 | 0 0 33 40 | 8488 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00101000 |
| UTF-32LE | 28 21 00 00 | 40 33 0 0 | 673251328 | 00101000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |