З
З (lower case з ) is a Cyrillic letter and part of the Russian and other alphabets . His pronunciation is / for / - a voiced S, as for example in the German word sun occurs, or palatalised / z /.
The origin of the З is the Glagolitic letter Zemlya ( 
), which is probably a variant of the Greek theta . This letter had a numerical value of 9 in the Glagolitic number system . The letter was adopted in the early Cyrillic alphabet, where from then on it assumed the numerical value 7 of the Cyrillic number system .
In the first draft of the civil script under Tsar Peter the Great from 1708, the З was abolished and the Ѕ was assigned the sound value z . In the later version of 1710, however, the opposite was done (Ѕ abolished, З retained). Both variants were in use until 1735; after that the variant with З prevailed.
In the old orthography of the Zhuang , the letter was used for the 3rd tone because it looks similar to the number 3. In the 1986 reform it was replaced by the J.
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase З | Minuscule з | |
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| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 0417 | U + 0437 |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZE | |
| UTF-8 | D0 97 | D0 B7 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
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| hexadecimal |
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