Z with hook (majuscule: Ȥ, minuscule: ȥ) is an additional letter of the Latin script. The Unicode standard notes "Middle High German" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the coronal fricative also transcribed as tailed z . The -character is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of pronounced as (in such a case, modern German now uses ). In contrast, the -character is pronounced as , as is still the case in modern German. And the -character is pronounced as .
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See also Middle High German High German consonant shift Middle High German literature Ʒ (ezh) Ɀ (z with swash tail) Ⱬ (z with descender) Ƶ (z with stroke)
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