Ȥ

Z with hook, Ȥ (minuscule: ȥ) is a letter of the Latin script.

Z with hook in Doulos SIL

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/.

Computing codes

This letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.

See also

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