diacritics: Ź ź Ẑ ẑ Ž ž Ż ż Ẓ ẓ Ẕ ẕ Ƶ ƶ ᵶ Ᶎ ᶎ Ⱬ ⱬ ß : German letter regarded as a ligature of long s (ſ) and short s, called or . (In some typefaces and handwriting styles it is rather a ligature of long s and tailed z (ſʒ).) Ȥ ȥ: Latin letter z with a hook, intended for the transcription of Middle High German, for instances of the letter z with a sound value of /s/. Ɀ ɀ : Latin letter Z with swash tail Ʒ ʒ : Latin letter ezh Ꝣ ꝣ : Visigothic Z Ᶎ ᶎ : Z with hook, used for writing Mandarin Chinese using the early draft version of pinyin romanization during the mid-1950s IPA-specific symbols related to Z: is used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet Modifier letters ᶻ ᶼ ᶽ are used in phonetic transcription Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets 𐤆 : Semitic letter Zayin, from which the following letters derive Ζ ζ : Greek letter Zeta, from which the following letters derive : Coptic letter Zēta 𐌆 : Old Italic Z, which is the ancestor of modern Latin Z : Gothic letter ezec З з : Cyrillic letter Ze Computing codes 1 On the QWERTZ keyboard used in Central Europe the Z replaces the Y of the standard US/UK QWERTY keyboard as the sixth letter of the first row. Other representations See also Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol, Z with stroke, Ƶ Zed Zee Z flag Z (military symbol) References External links ISO basic Latin letters