Ž

Ž U+017D, Ž
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
Composition:Z [U+005A] + ◌̌ [U+030C]
ż
[U+017C]
Latin Extended-A ž
[U+017E]

Translingual

Description

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

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See also

Czech

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. the final letter of the Czech alphabet, after z

Estonian

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Estonian alphabet, called žee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords.
  • Sometimes written as zh.

See also

Finnish

Etymology

Common European letter for this sound, apparently first used in Czech; see Ž on Wikipedia.

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called hattu-z or suhu-z and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • In the Finnish alphabet, Ž is a variant of Z.
  • Used only in loanwords and transcribing foreign names.
  • Often spelled as z or zh, mainly due to technical restrictions (e.g. Ž cannot be directly typed with the standard Finnish keyboard layout).

See also

Kalo Finnish Romani

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Kalo Finnish Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.[1]

Usage notes

Used only in the digraph .[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Aakkoset [Alphabet]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[1] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved 6 February 2022, pages 1-2

Lakota

Pronunciation

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. A letter of the Lakota alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʒ]

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Latvian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

See also

Lithuanian

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. 32nd letter of the Lithuanian alphabet

See also

  • Appendix:Alphabets

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called žet and written in the Latin script.

See also

Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž)

  1. (Pan-Vlax) The thirty-second letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: (International Standard) Ź

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Letter

Ž (upper case, lower case ž, Cyrillic spelling Ж)

  1. 30th letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet

See also

  • Appendix:Alphabets

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. The forty-sixth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Further reading

  • Ž”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

Ž (capital, lowercase ž)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The thirty-fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
  3. The twenty-sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

Wakhi

Pronunciation

Letter

Ž (lower case ž)

  1. A letter of the Wakhi alphabet, written in the Latin script.