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Z with hook, Ȥ (minuscule: ȥ) is a letter of the Latin script.

The Unicode standard notes "Middle High German" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the coronal fricative /s/ also transcribed as tailed z ⟨ʒ⟩. The ⟨ȥ⟩-character is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of ⟨z⟩ pronounced as [s] (in such a case, modern German now uses ⟨s⟩). In contrast, the ⟨z⟩-character is pronounced as /ts/, as is still the case in modern German. And the ⟨s⟩-character is pronounced as /z/.

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  z and ȥ in Schade (1868).
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  "sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
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  Italic z and ȥ in Paul (1918).

This letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.

• Middle High German
• High German consonant shift
• Middle High German literature
• Ʒ (ezh)
• Ɀ (z with swash tail)
• Ⱬ (z with descender)
• Ƶ (z with stroke)