U+0240 Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail
U+0240 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block Latin Extended-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0240 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ɀ (lowercase: ɀ) is a Latin letter z with a "swash tail" (encoded by Unicode, at codepoints U+2C7F for uppercase and U+0240 for lowercase) was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying African languages to represent a voiced labio-alveolar fricative ([zʷ]).
In 1931, it was adopted into the orthography of Shona for a 'whistled' z, but it was dropped in 1955 due to the lack of the character on typewriters and fonts. Today the digraph zv is used.
It is sometimes used to transcribe Toda's /d̪z̪/.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 576 |
| UTF-8 | C9 80 |
| UTF-16 | 02 40 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 40 |
| URL-Quoted | %C9%80 |
| HTML hex reference | ɀ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ɀ |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 4.1 (2005) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH SWASH TAIL | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended-B | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Z with Swash Tail | |
| R |