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U+0290 CHARACTER

LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
Code Point U+0290
Decimal Value 656
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) →
Unicode Block IPA Extensions →
Script Latin →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes CA 90
UTF-16 Code Unit 0290
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000290
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 02 90 LE: 90 02
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 02 90 LE: 90 02 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ʐ
HTML Hexadecimal ʐ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000290
JavaScript (ES6) \u0290
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0290
JSON Escape \u0290
Python \u0290
PHP "\u{290}"
Java "\u0290"
C / C++ "\u0290"
Rust '\u{290}'
URL Percent-Encoded %CA%90

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

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0290 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK

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

Identifier U+0290

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