Ʒ

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Ʒ (lowercase ʒ, Ezh) is a character in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative. It is also called the tailed z. Example: vision [ˈvɪʒən].

As a phonetic symbol, ʒ originates with Isaac Pitman's alphabet in 1847, as a z with an added hook. Medieval cursive forms of Latin z, evolving into the blackletter z letter, are very similar in appearance. For purposes of electronic text encoding, however, the latter is considered a glyph variant of z, and not an ezh. (However, Middle High German has a z with a hook, much smaller than that on ezh, that is distinct from both z and ʒ.)

ʒ is used as a letter in some orthographies of Skolt Sami, both by itself, and with a caron (Ǯ ǯ). These denote partially voiced alveolar (ʒ) and post-alveolar (Ǯ) affricates. It also appears in the orthography of some African languages, e.g. the Aja language of Benin and the Daghbani language of Ghana, where the uppercase variant looks like a reflected Σ, which is not in Unicode 4.0.

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Ezh and Yogh

In Unicode 1.0 the character was unified with the unrelated character Yogh (Ȝ ȝ), which was not correctly added to Unicode until Unicode 3.0. Genetically, ʒ is derived from Latin z, while ȝ is derived from Latin g. The characters do look very similar, and do not appear alongside each other in any alphabet. To better differentiate between ʒ and ȝ, the Oxford University Press and the Early English Text Society extend the uppermost tip of the 'yogh' into a little curvature upward.

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Ezh and the digit three

The capital Ʒ looks similar to the digit 3. To differentiate between the two characters, the "3" is usually curved, while Ʒ is written as a combination of a "zigzag" and a tail.

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On the derivation of Yogh and Ezh

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