Unicode Character "z" (U+FF5A)

The character (Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Z) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF5A. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as z.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Z
Unicode Codepoint U+FF5A
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character (U+FF3A)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF5A Conversion

HTML (decimal) z
HTML (hex) z
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%9A
CSS \00FF5A
JavaScript, JSON \uFF5A
C, C++, Java \uFF5A
Python \uFF5A
Rust \u{FF5A}
Ruby \uFF5A

How to type "z"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 5 A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 5 A. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0x9A
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF5A
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF5A

References