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U+005A CHARACTER

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
Code Point U+005A
Decimal Value 90
General Category Uppercase Letter (Lu) →
Unicode Block Basic Latin →
Script Latin →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 1 byte 5A
UTF-16 Code Unit 005A
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000005A
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 5A LE: 5A 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 5A LE: 5A 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal Z
HTML Hexadecimal Z
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00005A
JavaScript (ES6) \u005A
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u005A
JSON Escape \u005A
Python \u005A
PHP "\u{5A}"
Java "\u005A"
C / C++ "\u005A"
Rust '\u{5a}'
URL Percent-Encoded %5A

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Lowercase Mapping z U+007A

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+005A across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Z
Context: A Z Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Z
Context: A Z Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Z
Context: A Z Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Z
Context: A Z Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+005A

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