Unicode Character "ż" (U+017C)

The character ż (Latin Small Letter Z With Dot Above) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+017C. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ż.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Small Letter Z With Dot Above
Unicode Codepoint U+017C
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin Extended-A
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Ż (U+017B)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+017C Conversion

HTML (decimal) ż
HTML (hex) ż
HTML (named) ż
URL Escape Code %C5%BC
CSS \00017C
JavaScript, JSON \u017C
C, C++, Java \u017C
Python \u017C
Rust \u{017C}
Ruby \u017C

How to type "ż"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 1 7 C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 1 7 C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ż
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ż
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ż
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC5 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0x017C
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000017C

References