Z with hook, Ȥ (minuscule: ȥ) is a letter of the Latin script.
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⟩. It is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of ⟨z⟩ pronounced as [s], ⟨ȥ⟩, modern German: ⟨s⟩, from ⟨z⟩ pronounced as /ts/, as is still the case in modern German; the manuscripts typically used ⟨s⟩ to represent /z/.
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z and ȥ in Schade (1868).
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"sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
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Italic z and ȥ in Paul (1918).
Computing codes
editThis letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.
See also
edit- Middle High German
- High German consonant shift
- Middle High German literature
- Ʒ (ezh)
- Ɀ (z with swash tail)
- Ⱬ (z with descender)
- Ƶ (z with stroke)