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Z with hook (majuscule: Ȥ, minuscule: ȥ) is an additional 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⟩. The ⟨ȥ⟩-character is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of ⟨z⟩ pronounced as [s] (in such a case, modern German now uses ⟨s⟩). In contrast, the ⟨z⟩-character is pronounced as /ts/, as is still the case in modern German.[1] And the ⟨s⟩-character is pronounced as /z/.
⟨z⟩ and ⟨ȥ⟩ in Schade (1868).
"sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
Italic ⟨z⟩ and ⟨ȥ⟩ (appearing nearly identical to ⟨ʒ⟩) in Paul (1918).
Computer encoding
[edit]| Preview | Ȥ | ȥ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH HOOK | LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH HOOK | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 548 | U+0224 | 549 | U+0225 |
| UTF-8 | 200 164 | C8 A4 | 200 165 | C8 A5 |
| Numeric character reference | Ȥ | Ȥ | ȥ | ȥ |
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)
References
[edit]- ↑ Wright, Joseph (1917). A Middle High German Primer. Oxford University Press. p. 24.