ž

Letter

 * 1) The letter z with a háček.
 * 2)  Transliterates Devanagari झ़ and Perso-Arabic letter ژ in Indic languages.

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiced postalveolar fricative (IPA []).

Letter

 * 1) the final letter of the Czech alphabet, after z

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Etymology
Common European letter for this sound, apparently first used in Czech; see Ž on Wikipedia.

Usage notes

 * In the Finnish alphabet, ž is a variant of.
 * Often written as zh.
 * Used only in loanwords and transcribing foreign names.

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

Letter




Letter

 * 1) The 30th and last letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of ženski rod.

Noun

 * 1)  feminine gender