Capital Z with Acute HTML entity Ź

Ź is the HTML entity for Capital Z with Acute Ź (U+0179). Copy Ź, Ź and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity
Ź
Code point
U+0179
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
Block
Latin Extended-A
Category
Uppercase letter (Lu)
Since
Unicode 1.1
Defined in
HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML namedŹWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimalŹWorks in HTML and XML.
HTML hexŹWorks in HTML and XML.
CSScontent: "\179";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u0179"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u0179"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%C5%B9Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesC5 B92 bytes.
UTF-1601791 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

Ź writes U+0179 (Capital Z with Acute), a capital letter from the Unicode Latin Extended-A block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. On a page saved as UTF-8 the letter can simply be typed; the entity helps in ASCII-only templates and code samples.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).