Z

Etymology
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  zetta-
 * 2)  the impedance of an electrical circuit
 * 3)  the depth dimension in a 3D environment
 * 4)  atomic number
 * 5)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either glutamine or glutamic acid
 * 6)  Zulu time

Derived terms




Pronunciation

 * Name of letter

Noun

 * 1) A member of Generation Z.
 * 2)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.
 * 1)  Z-drug.

Noun

 * 1) Z

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial, geminated or post-sonorant *t.
 * For the origin of, see.

Usage notes

 * may also be represented by, mostly when there is an intervening morpheme boundary.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, is always represented by ts (or ds). In the German-based spelling,  is represented by  (see there).


 * In the German-based spelling, doubling of z yields tz, which is used after short vowels. (As z is already a voiceless sound there is no change in coda position.)
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, z is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. Coda z is automatically replaced with s.

Etymology 1
Derived from.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 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).

Letter

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

Adverb

 * 1) ; south

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ts.

Letter

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

Usage notes

 * Doubling of generally yields, but  is 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 grapheme Ƶ is virtually never used in printing.

Pronunciation

 * Z is spelt single stem-initially and after consonants. The pronunciation is not predictable and may be or, though after -l- and -r- it is mostly . It is also spelt single post-vocalically before , where the pronunciation is mostly.
 * Between true vowels it is usually doubled as zz. The pronunciation, again, is not predictable and may be or . Chiefly in learned words it may be spelt single, in which case it is predominantly.

Symbol

 * 1) the letter zeta in the Greek alphabet

Etymology
The letter descended from the Old Italic letter in the  period, but had long fell into native disuse by the Classical period, when it came back into use, transcribing the  letter, which had formerly been transcribed  in initial position and  in medial position. In writings of the period,  frequently takes the place of  and in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-initial.

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 29th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes
Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s.

Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Etymology
Sense 2 was derived from. The Z sign was initially used for vehicles targeted towards southeastern Ukraine, in a manner similar to invasion stripes used by the Allies in World War II. Later popularised by the Russian government on social media as a rallying symbol.

Symbol

 * 1) the Roman letter Z, z
 * 2)    A symbol representing support for the
 * 3) * "ru"
 * 1) * "ru"
 * 1) * "ru"

- #ZаМир, #ZаПобеду


 * 1) * "ru"

- ZOV


 * 1) * "ru"

- Zалупа, роZZия, zвери, Zло, Zомби, пиZдец

Usage notes
Russian nationalists replace instances of the Cyrillic letter and less commonly  with Z in some words and usernames, and their opponents also use Latin Z's in Russian words to mock them.

Letter

 * 1) the 27th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

 * This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.
 * Some purists of Tagalog replace Z in words with.

Etymology
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 (see ).

Symbol

 * 1) the Roman letter Z, z
 * 2) * "uk"
 * 1) * "uk"
 * 1) * "uk"

- РоZZія

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