See also: Appendix:Variations of "z", [U+1D23 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EZH], Ӡ [U+04E0 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN DZE], [U+10F3 GEORGIAN LETTER WE], Ȝ [U+021C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER YOGH], [U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET], [U+2128 BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL Z], 3 [U+0033 DIGIT THREE], ƺ [U+01BA LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH TAIL], ǯ [U+01EF LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CARON], ʓ [U+0293 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CURL], [U+1D9A LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK], and 𬼁 [U+2CF01 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF01]

ʒ U+0292, ʒ
LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH
ʑ
[U+0291]
IPA Extensions ʓ
[U+0293]

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Etymology 1

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Introduced in Isaac Pitman's English Phonotypic Alphabet in 1847 based on the "tailed" medieval cursive form of the letter z.

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  • IPA:(file)

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ʒ

  1. (IPA) a voiced palatoalveolar sibilant.
    Coordinate term: (voiceless palatoalveolar fricative) ʃ
  2. (superscript ⟨ᶾ⟩, IPA) [ʒ]-fricated release of a plosive (e.g. [dᶾ], sometimes implying an affricate [d͡ʒ]); [ʒ]-coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ʒ].
  3. (some Italian dictionaries) voiced alveolar affricate (/dz/)
    Synonym: ż
  4. (UPA, NAPA) A d-z affricate (IPA [d͡z])
    Synonym: dz

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Etymology 2

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Alternative form of (drachm, dram)

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ʒ

  1. (pharmacy) drachm, dram.
    • 1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. [] (in English), London: [] Thomas Vautroullier [], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:
      BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. [] . medulda caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ʒ. vj. of diaprunis laxatiue. ʒ. ij. of ſuger roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] tabulate as much as ſuffiſeth make a bole.

Etymology 3

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ʒ

  1. (alchemy, archaic) cinnabar
    Synonym: 🜓

Dagbani

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ʒ (upper case Ʒ)

  1. A letter of the Dagbani alphabet.

Even

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ʒ () (upper case Ʒ)

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet.

Evenki

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ʒ () (upper case Ʒ)

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet.

Kildin Sami

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ʒ () (upper case Ʒ)

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet.

Romani

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/, /ʑ/, /ʒ/

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ʒ (upper case Ʒ)

  1. (International Standard) The thirty-second letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: (Pan-Vlax)

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References

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  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “DIALECTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RROMANI LANGUAGE”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 43
  • Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, in R.E.D-RROM[1], 2021 October 2 (last accessed)
  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “Ʒ, ʒ”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 15

Skolt Sami

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ʒ (upper case Ʒ)

  1. The sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Wakhi

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Pronunciation

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ʒ (upper case Ʒ)

  1. A letter of the Wakhi alphabet, written in the Latin script.