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Ezh (Ʒ ʒ) / ˈ ɛ ʒ / ⓘ EZH, also called the "tailed z", is a letter, notable for its use in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant.
The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (Czech: háček, Slovak: mäkčeň, Slovene: strešica, Serbo-Croatian: kvačica).It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j.
Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish , Montenegrin , Lower Sorbian , Upper Sorbian , Emiliano-Romagnolo , Wymysorys and Brahui , as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet , Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto .
Zhe may also be derived from the Coptic letter janjia Ϫ , supported by the phonetic value (janjia represents the sound /d͡ʒ/ in Coptic) and shape of the letter, which the Glagolitic counterpart Zhivete Ⰶ resembles even more closely. The form of the letter also may be derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting a drill:
The name of the letter Z is usually the British, Canadian and Australian zed /zed/. However the alphabet song for children is sometimes sung ending with /ziː/ in accordance with the rhyme. Where Z is universally pronounced zee in places, names, terms, or titles, such as ZZ Top , LZ ( landing zone ), Jay Z (celebrity), or Z Nation (TV show) New ...
The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud, letter-by-letter, and how the spelling words should be pronounced for use by the Allies of World War II.
A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficiently different from each other to clearly differentiate them.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ze-[1]boil: Greek: ζεῖν (zeîn), ζεστός (zestós), ζέσις, ζέμα, ζέματος (zéma, zématos)