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Z

See also: z [U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z], ʒ [U+0292 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH], Ζ [U+0396 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA], ℤ [U+2124 DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Z], 乙 [U+4E59 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E59], ㆸ [U+31B8 BOPOMOFO LETTER GH], and Variations of "z"

Z - Translingual

Letter

Z (lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

Z

  1. (metrology) zetta-
  2. (physics) the impedance of an electrical circuit
  3. (physics, computer graphics) the depth dimension in a 3D environment
  4. (physics) atomic number
  5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either aspargine or aspartic acid

Derived terms

  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of Z, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase Z in Fraktur

Z - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, Canada, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /zɛd/
  • (US) IPA: /zi/
  • (Hong Kong) IPA: /iˈzɛd/, /ɪˈzɛd/ (from izzard)

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z, plural Zs or Z's)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed or zee and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

Noun

Z (plural Z's or Zs)

  1. A member of Generation Z.
  2. (slang) Z-drug.

Z - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /zɛt/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

Z (plural Z's, diminutive Z'tjie)

  1. Z

Z - Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /z(ə)/

Letter

Z (lower case z)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The thirty-seventh letter of the Albanian alphabet, called Arbëreshë, Arvanitic, or Arvanitika and written in the Latin script. Z, z
  3. The 10th letter of the Albanian alphabet, called Arvanitic or Arvanitika and written in the Greek script. Ζ, ζ

Z - Azerbaijani

Letter

Z upper case (lower case z)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /s̻eta/, [s̻e̞.t̪a]

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Basque alphabet, called zeta and written in the Latin script.

Z - Central Franconian

Pronunciation

  • (German-based) /ts/
  • (Dutch-based) /z/

Letter

Z

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

  • /ts/ may also be represented by ts, tts, ds, dds, mostly when there is an intervening morpheme boundary.
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, /ts/ is always represented by ts (or ds). In the German-based spelling, /z/ is represented by s (see there).
  • In the German-based spelling, doubling of z yields tz, which is used after short vowels. (As z is already a voiceless sound there is no change in coda position.)
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, z is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. Coda z is automatically replaced with s.

Z - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin

Symbol

Z

  1. (Mainland China) A shorthand used to refer to direct express trains.

Pronunciation 1

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): zèi (zei4)
    • (Zhuyin): ㄗㄟˋ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ji6 set1, set1
  • Min Nan
    • (Hokkien, POJ): che̍t
    • (Teochew, Peng'im): rêh8
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 3ze

Letter

Z

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Letter

Z

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter used in Pinyin.

Usage notes

  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Z - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /zɛt/

Letter

Z (capital, lowercase z)

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Adverb

Z

  1. Abbreviation of zuid; south

Z - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /zo/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called zo and written in the Latin script.

Z - Estonian

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Estonian alphabet, called tsett and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords.

Z - Finnish

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tseta or tset and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ts.

Z - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tsɛt/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes

  • Doubling of z generally yields tz, but zz is retained in loanwords (chiefly from Italian).
  • In German handwriting, the letter Z very often receives an additional stroke in the middle: Ƶ. A lack of this stroke may even make the letter look "incomplete" to a great deal of language users. However, the corresponding grapheme Ƶ is virtually never used in printing.

Z - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: [ˈz]
  • (letter name): IPA: [ˈzeː]

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called zé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of Z

Z - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Italian

Pronunciation

  • (phonemic realization) IPA: */t͡s/*, */d͡z/*
    • Z is spelt single stem-initially and after consonants. The pronunciation is not predictable and may be /t͡s/ or /d͡z/, though after -l- and -r- it is mostly /t͡s/. It is also spelt single post-vocalically before [j], where the pronunciation is mostly /tt͡s/.
    • Between true vowels it is usually doubled as zz. The pronunciation, again, is not predictable and may be /tt͡s/ or /dd͡z/. Chiefly in learned words it may be spelt single, in which case it is predominantly /dd͡z/.

Letter

Z f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Italian alphabet, called zeta and written in the Latin script.

Symbol

Z

  1. the letter zeta in the Greek alphabet

Z - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /z/, [z̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /d͡z/, [d̪͡z̪]

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Classical Latin alphabet, called zēta.

Z - Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [z]

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Latvian alphabet, called zē and written in the Latin script.

Z - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [zɛt̚], [zɛk̚], [zi]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [z]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [s]

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Norwegian

Letter

Z (upper case Z, lower case z)

  1. the 29th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes

Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s.

Z - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /zɛt/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Polish alphabet, called zet and written in the Latin script.

Z - Portuguese

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. (International Standard) The thirtieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The thirty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ze, zet, zed, or zî and written in the Latin script.

Z - Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [zɛt]

Symbol

Z (lower case z)

  1. the Roman letter Z, z
  2. (politics) A symbol representing support for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Usage notes

Russian nationalists replace instances of the Cyrillic letter З (Z) with Z in some words and usernames, and their opponents also use Latin Z's in Russian words to mock them.

  • зиговать (zigovatʹ, “to use a Nazi salute”), zиговать (zigovatʹ, “to support the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine”)
  • zомби (zombi, “a zombie, a fanatical Russian nationalist who supports the invasion of Ukraine”)
  • РоZZия (RoZZija, “RuZZia, Russia as the aggressor during the invasion of Ukraine”)

Descendants

  • ⇒ English: zwastika (internet slang, usage of Z by Russian nationalists)
  • ⇒ English: Ruzzia (internet slang, Russia being militarised during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: Z (a symbol used by Ukrainians to mock Russia)

Z - Saanich

Letter

Z

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /z/

Letter

Z (lower case z)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Z - Slovene

Letter

Z (capital, lowercase z)

  1. The 24th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by V and followed by Ž.

Z - Spanish

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. the 27th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Z - Turkish

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ze and written in the Latin script.

Z - Ukrainian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [zɛt]

Symbol

Z (lower case z)

  1. the Roman letter Z, z
  2. (politics) a dogwhistle for supporting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Usage notes

Often used by Ukrainian Internet users and politicians to mock or insult Russians, especially for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Z - Zulu

Letter

Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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