Z

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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],Ất[U+4E59 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E59],ㆸ[U+31B8 BOPOMOFO LETTER GH],andAppendix:Variations of "z"

ZU+005A,Z
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
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[U+005B]
Character variations
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FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
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[U+FF39] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ［→
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Afrikaans•Albanian•Azerbaijani•Basque•Central Franconian•Central Mazahua•Chinese•Dutch•Esperanto•Estonian•Finnish•German•Heiltsuk•Hungarian•Ido•Italian•Kashubian•Latin•Latvian•Lower Sorbian•Malay•Norwegian•Nupe•Polish•Portuguese•Romani•Romanian•Russian•Saanich•Silesian•Skolt Sami•Slovene•Spanish•Tagalog•Turkish•Ukrainian•Zulu
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Translingual

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EnglishWikipediahas an article on:
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Etymology

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From theEtruscanletter𐌆(z,“ze”),from theAncient GreekletterΖ(Z,“zeta”),derived from thePhoenicianletter𐤆(z,“zayin”),from theEgyptianhieroglyph𓏭.

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Z(lower casez)

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

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Symbol

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Z

  1. (metrology)zetta-
  2. (physics)theimpedanceof anelectricalcircuit
  3. (physics,computer graphics)thedepthdimensionin a3Denvironment
  4. (physics)atomic number
  5. (biochemistry)IUPAC1-letter abbreviation for eitherglutamineorglutamic acid
  6. (time zones)Zulu time
    1600Z

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Base SI units derived from the prefix meaningzetta-
Derived SI units derived from the prefix meaningzetta-
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  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of Z, in normal and italic type
    Uppercase and lowercase versions ofZ,in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase Z in Fraktur
    Uppercase and lowercaseZinFraktur

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English

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Name of letter

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Z(upper case,lower casez,pluralZsorZ's)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Englishalphabet,calledzedorzeeand written in theLatin script.

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Noun

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Z(pluralZ'sorZs)

  1. A member ofGeneration Z.
    Synonyms:Generation Z,Generation Zer,Gen Z,Gen-Zer,Zer,zoomer
    Alternative form:Zed
    • 2017,Martha M. Ellis, Linda Garcia,Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges: New Challenges, New Leaders,Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN,page10:
      Take that a step further for Millennials andZsby crafting an e-mail subject header that does the same but with even fewer characters;[…]
    • 2020,Zerlina Maxwell,The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide,New York, N.Y.:Hachette Books,→ISBN:
      The current progressive movement—and certainly the Millennials andZs—understand that the Hyde Amendment is discriminatory[…]
    • 2022,Morgen Witzel,editor,Post-Pandemic Leadership: Exploring Solutions to a Crisis,Routledge,→ISBN:
      The current global pandemic is almost certainly a formative moment for younger Millennials andZsas they navigate through similar challenges.
  2. (slang)Z-drug.
    • 2013,Snap Capone (lyrics and music), “Lights Out”, inThe Memoir‎[1],from 0:16:
      I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap
      Bujso peng it makes the fiends collapse
      Cook that coca into crack
      I was sellingZswhile you was in your bed

Afrikaans

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Afrikaansalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Noun

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Z(pluralZ's,diminutiveZ'tjie)

  1. Z

Albanian

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Z(lower casez)

  1. The thirty-fifthletterof the Albanianalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Azerbaijani

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Zupper case(lower casez)

  1. The thirty-secondletterof the Azerbaijanialphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/s̻eta/,[s̻e̞.t̪a]

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-seventhletterof the Basquealphabet,calledzetaand written in theLatin script.

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Central Franconian

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Etymology

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  • /ts/is from West Germanic stem-initial, geminated or post-sonorant*t.
  • For the origin of/z/,seeS.

Pronunciation

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

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Z

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

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  • /ts/may also be represented byts, tts, ds, dds,mostly when there is an interveningmorphemeboundary.
  • In the Dutch-based spelling,/ts/is always represented byts(ords). In the German-based spelling,/z/is represented bys(see there).
Doubling of Z and use in the syllable coda
  • In the German-based spelling, doubling ofzyieldstz,which is used after short vowels. (Aszis already a voiceless sound there is no change in coda position.)
  • In the Dutch-based spelling,zis doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. Codazis automatically replaced withs.

Central Mazahua

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Z(lower casez)

  1. A letter of theMazahuaalphabet.

Chinese

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Etymology 1

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Derived fromTrực(zhí,“straight” ).

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Z

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

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Pronunciation 1

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Z

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

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Z

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter used inPinyin.
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  • 《 hán ngữ bính âm phương án 》 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).

Dutch

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Z(capital,lowercasez)

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

Adverb

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Z

  1. Abbreviationofzuid;south

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  • Previous letter:Y

Esperanto

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-eighthletterof the Esperantoalphabet,calledzoand written in theLatin script.

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Estonian

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EstonianWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipediaet

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-firstletterof the Estonianalphabet,calledtsettand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used only in loanwords.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. Seethe Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information,andZfor information on the development of the glyph itself.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-fifthletterof the Finnishalphabet,calledtsetaortsetand written in theLatin script.

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  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced withts.

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compounds

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German

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

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

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  • Doubling ofzgenerally yieldstz,butzzis 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 graphemeƵis virtually never used in printing.

Heiltsuk

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Z(lower casez)

  1. Aletterof the Heiltsukalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Hungarian

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirty-ninthletterof the Hungarianalphabet,calledzéand written in theLatin script.

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative Z Z-k
accusative Z-t Z-ket
dative Z-nek Z-knek
instrumental Z-vel Z-kkel
causal-final Z-ért Z-kért
translative Z-vé Z-kké
terminative Z-ig Z-kig
essive-formal Z-ként Z-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive Z-ben Z-kben
superessive Z-n Z-ken
adessive Z-nél Z-knél
illative Z-be Z-kbe
sublative Z-re Z-kre
allative Z-hez Z-khez
elative Z-ből Z-kből
delative Z-ről Z-kről
ablative Z-től Z-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Z-é Z-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Z-éi Z-kéi
Possessive formsofZ
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Z-m Z-im
2nd person sing. Z-d Z-id
3rd person sing. Z-je Z-i
1st person plural Z-nk Z-ink
2nd person plural Z-tek Z-itek
3rd person plural Z-jük Z-ik

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Ido

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Z(lower casez)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Idoalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Italian

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ItalianWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipediait

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  • (letter name)IPA(key):*/ˈd͡zɛ.ta/,*/ˈd͡ze.ta/[1]
  • (phonemic realization)IPA(key):*/t͡s/*,*/d͡z/*
    • Zis 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 aszz.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/.

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Zform(invariable,upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-firstletterof the Italianalphabet,calledzetaand written in theLatin script.

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Z

  1. the letterzetain the Greek alphabet

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References

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  1. ^ZinLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Kashubian

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Etymology

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See theKashubian alphabetarticle on Wikipedia for more, andZfor development of the glyph itself.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirty-secondletterof the Kashubianalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Latin

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Etymology

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The letter descended from theOld Italicletter𐌆(z)in theOld Latinperiod, but had long fell into native disuse by theClassical period,when it came back into use, transcribing theAncient GreekletterΖ(Z,“zeta”),which had formerly been transcribedSin initial position andSSin medial position. In writings of theLate Latinperiod,Zfrequently takes the place ofSand in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-initialprevocalicdi.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-third letter of theClassical Latinalphabet, calledzēta.

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  • “Z, z”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ZinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette, page1,700/1.
  • “Z, z”on page 2,125/1 of theOxford Latin Dictionary(1st ed., 1968–82)

Latvian

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LatvianWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipedialv

Etymology

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Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed byK. Mīlenbahs,which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in GermanFraktur,and sporadically inCyrillic.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirty-secondletterof the Latvianalphabet,calledzēand written in theLatin script.

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Lower Sorbian

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Z(lower casez)

  1. The thirty-secondletterof the Lower Sorbianalphabet,calledzetand written in theLatin script.

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Malay

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MalayWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipediams

Pronunciation

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

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Malayalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Norwegian

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Z(upper caseZ,lower casez)

  1. the 29th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

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

Nupe

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-ninthletterof the Nupealphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Polish

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Etymology

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The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See thehistory of Polish orthographyarticle on Wikipedia for more, andZfor development of the glyph itself.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirtiethletterof the Polishalphabet,calledzetand written in theLatin script.

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Portuguese

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Portuguesealphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Romani

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. (International Standard)The thirtiethletterof the Romanialphabet,written in theLatin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax)The thirty-firstletterof the Romanialphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Romanian

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirty-firstletterof the Romanianalphabet,calledze,zet,zed,orzîand written in theLatin script.

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Russian

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The Z symbol used by the Russian military.
EnglishWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

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Sense 2 was derived fromзапад(zapad,“west”).The Z sign was initially used for vehicles targeted towards southeastern Ukraine, in a manner similar toinvasion stripesused by theAlliesinWorld War II.Later popularized by the Russian government on social media as a rallying symbol.

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Z(lower casez)

  1. the Roman letterZ,z
    Synonym:зет(zɛt)
  3. (The addition ofquotationsindicative of this usage is being sought:)(politics)Asymbolrepresentingsupportfor the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    Synonyms:(all derogatory)полусва́стика(polusvástika),но́ваясва́стика(nóvaja svástika),зва́стика(zvástika),зи́га(zíga)
    • #ZаМир, #ZаПобеду(hashtags using Z by Russian nationalists in support for war against Ukraine)
      #ZaMir, #ZaPobedu
      "for peace", "for victory"
    • ZOV(a symbol combining V and O, more symbols used on Russian tanks, used by the Russian government and some online users in support for war against Ukraine)
      ZOV (may also be interpreted asзов,or "call forth [to war]" )
    • Zалупа, роZZия,zвери,Zло,Zомби, пиZдец(derisive online slang terms mocking Russian nationalists)
      Zalupa, roZZija,zveri,Zlo,Zombi, piZdec
      "dickhead", "RuZZia", "beaZts", "evil", "Zombie", "fucked up"

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

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  • Z-бло́гер(Z-blóger,“a Z-blogger, a blogger who supports the invasion of Ukraine”)
  • Z-ме́рч(Z-mérč,“Z-merch, merchandise glorifying the invasion of Ukraine”)
  • Z-те́хника(Z-téxnika,“Z-techniques, techniques used during the invasion”)
  • Z-патрио́т(Z-patriót,“a Z-patriot, fanatical Russian nationalist who supports the invasion of Ukraine”)
  • зе́тник(zétnik,“a vatnik who uses the Z symbol, a supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine”),зэ́тник(zɛ́tnik)
  • зиговать(zigovatʹ,“to use a Nazi salute”),zиговать(zigovatʹ,“to support the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine”)
  • zва́стика(zvástika)
  • 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”)
  • ру́ZZкий мир(rúZZkij mir)

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  • ⇒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)

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Saanich

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Z

  1. The thirty-eighthletterof the Saanichalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Silesian

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Etymology

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The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See theSilesian languagearticle on Wikipedia for more, andZfor development of the glyph itself.

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The thirty-secondletterof the Silesianalphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Skolt Sami

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Z(lower casez)

  1. The thirty-thirdletterof the Skolt Samialphabet,written in theLatin script.

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Slovene

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SloveneWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipediasl

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Z(capital,lowercasez)

  1. The twenty-fourthletterof the Slovenealphabet,written in theLatin script.
  2. The thirty-fourthletterof the Slovenealphabet(Resian), written in theLatin script.
  3. The twenty-fifthletterof the Slovenealphabet(Natisone Valley dialect), written in theLatin script.

Spanish

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. the 27th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Tagalog

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromSpanishZ.Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced byEnglishZ.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is fromSpanishZ.

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key):/ˈzi/[ˈzi](letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • IPA(key):(more native-sounding)/ˈsi/[ˈsi](letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • Rhymes:-i
    • IPA(key):/ˈzeta/[ˈzɛː.t̪ɐ](letter name, Abecedario)
      • IPA(key):(more native-sounding)/ˈseta/[ˈsɛː.t̪ɐ](letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes:-eta
    • IPA(key):/z/[z](phoneme)
      • IPA(key):(more native-sounding)/s/[s](phoneme)

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Z(upper case,lower casez,Baybayin spellingᜐᜒ)

  1. The twenty-eighthletterof the Tagalogalphabet(theFilipino alphabet), calledziand written in theLatin script.

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  • This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.
  • Some purists of Tagalog replaceZin words withS.

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Z(upper case,lower casez,Baybayin spellingᜐᜒᜆ)

  1. (historical)The twenty-eighthletterof the Tagalogalphabet(theAbecedario), calledzetaand written in theLatin script.

Further reading

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  • “Z”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018

Turkish

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-ninthletterof the Turkishalphabet,calledzeand written in theLatin script.

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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Originated from Russian usage of the letter Z as a military symbol, as well as a symbol of support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (seeZ).

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Z(lower casez)

  1. the Roman letterZ,z
    Synonym:зет(zet)
  2. (The addition ofquotationsindicative of this usage is being sought:)(politics)a symbol indicating that the user, or the person tagged with it, supports the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • РоZZія(derisive online slang term mocking Russian nationalists)
      RoZZija
      "RuZZia "

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Often used by Ukrainian Internet users and politicians to mock or deride Russians following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Zulu

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Z(upper case,lower casez)

  1. The twenty-sixthletterof the Zulualphabet,written in theLatin script.

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