This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the Greek letter with the same symbol, see Zeta. For other uses, see Z (disambiguation).
Z
Z z
Usage
Writing system
Latin script
Type
Alphabetic and logographic
Language of origin
Latin language
Phonetic usage
[z]
[dʒ]
[t͡s]
[d͡z]
[ð]
[θ]
[s]
[ʃ]
[j]
/zɛd/
/ziː/
Unicode codepoint
U+005A, U+007A
Alphabetical position
26
History
Development
Ζ ζ
𐌆
Z z
Time period
~700 BC to present
Descendants
Ʒ
Ç
Ƶ
Ž
Ż
𐌶
ℤ
Ꮓ
Sisters
З
Ѕ
Ԑ
Ԇ
Ҙ
ꙅ
Ӡ
ז ز ܙ
ژ
ࠆ
ዘ
𐎇
Զ զ
Ꮓ
Ꮛ
Ꮸ
ડ
ઢ
ज़
Disputed: ㄷ
Other
Other letters commonly used with
z(x), cz, dž, dz, sz, dzs, tzsch
Writing direction
Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed (/ˈzɛd/), which is most commonly used in international English and zee (/ˈziː/), only used in American, sometimes Canadian and Caribbean English and with an occasional archaic variant izzard (/ˈɪzərd/).[1]
^"Z", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "zee", op. cit.
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