Ƶ Information
Ƶ (minuscule: ƶ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from Z with the addition of a stroke.
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Uses
It was used in the Jaŋalif alphabet (as a part of Uniform Turkic Alphabet) for the Tatar language in the first half of the 20th century to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ], now written j. It was also used in the 1992 Latin Chechen spelling as voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ]. It was also used a 1931 variant of the Karelian alphabet for the Tver dialect.
As handwriting
Polish municipal police (Straż Miejska) badge, using Ż with a with horizontal stroke as a variant of Ż.Italians often use it for the [dz] sound in the hand-writing, while the normal Z is used for the [ts] sound. In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter Ż. Germans and Spaniards often use this sign in the hand-writing as the letter Z, as do others.
As currency
Ƶ was sometimes used instead of Z to represent the zaire, a former currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Also, the popular British TV show Doctor Who uses ƶ as the symbol for the unit of money, Galactic Credits.
In science
Ƶ is also used by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers as a variant of Z in hand-written equations, so as not to confuse the symbol with the numeral 2.
Uses on computers
The Unicode of uppercase Ƶ is 01B5, while the lowercase ƶ is 01B6.
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The ISO basic Latin alphabet
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
| Letter Z with diacritics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Źź | Ẑẑ | Žž | Żż | Ẓẓ | Ẕẕ | Ƶƶ | Ȥȥ | Ⱬⱬ | ᵶ | ᶎ | ʐ | ʑ | ɀ | |||||||||||||
| Letters using stroke sign ( ◌̵ ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ⱥⱥ | Ƀƀ | Ȼȼ | Đđ | Ɇɇ | Ǥǥ | Ꞡꞡ | Ħħ | Ɨ ɨ | Ɉɉ | Ꝁꝁ | Ꞣꞣ | Łł | Ꞥꞥ | Øø | Ᵽᵽ | Ꝗꝗ | Ɍɍ | Ꞧꞧ | Ꞩꞩ | Ŧŧ | Ʉʉ | Ɏɏ | Ƶƶ | Ꝥꝥ | ||
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