Ƶ

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Ƶ U+01B5, Ƶ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH STROKE
ƴ
[U+01B4]
Latin Extended-B ƶ
[U+01B6]

Translingual

Cursive form of the capital letter Z, corresponding to the digital glyph Ƶ

Symbol

Ƶ

  1. (informal) zaire (currency of Zaire, 1967-1993)
  2. (archaic) Jupiter
    Alternative form of

Synonyms

See also

Letter

Ƶ (lower case ƶ)

  1. The letter Z with a stroke, sometimes used in handwriting to avoid confusion with the digit 2 (e.g. the NATO rule for messages drafted for radio transmission)
  2. (obsolete) A letter of Yañalif, the Unified Northern Alphabet, and similar orthographies, used during the short-lived Soviet Latinization campaign of the 1930s. Pronounced /ʒ/.

Chechen

Pronunciation

Letter

Ƶ (upper case, lower case ƶ, Cyrillic Ж, Arabic ج)

  1. (1992–2000) The fortieth letter of the Chechen alphabet, called ƶe and written in the Latin script.

See also

Polish

STRAƵ

Pronunciation

Letter

Ƶ (upper case, lower case ƶ)

  1. an allograph of Ż

Further reading

  • Ƶ in Polish dictionaries at PWN