Ẑ Explained

Z with circumflex
Letter:Ẑẑ
Language:ISO 9 Cyrillic transliteration, Poliespo, Tsilhqot'in
Unicode:U+1E90, U+1E91
Type:alphabet
Typedesc:ic
Script:Latin script
Phonemes:pronounced as //ẕˤ//

is a Latin script letter, the letter Z with a circumflex, used for transliteration of the Cyrillic letter Ѕ in ISO 9 family of transliteration standards, and rarely used in Pinyin as a shorthand of zh. It is also used in Poliespo for the sound /kts/, and in the Tsilhqotʼin language to represent pronounced as /link/.

In mathematics, ẑ often refers to the unit vector in the +Z direction.

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ISO 9:1995: Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages . International Organization for Standardization . 13 Apr 2012 .