z
U+007A

LATIN SMALL LETTER Z

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
122

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN SMALL LETTER Z in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 7A 122 1
UTF-16 LE 7A 00 122 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 7A 0 122 2
UTF-32 LE 7A 00 00 00 122 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 7A 0 0 0 122 4
ASCII 7A 122 1
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 7A 122 1
Windows-1252 7A 122 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) 7A 122 1
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) 7A 122 1
KOI8-R 7A 122 1
Shift-JIS 7A 122 1
EUC-JP 7A 122 1
GBK 7A 122 1
Big5 7A 122 1

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
z
z
\7A
\u007A
z
\u007a
122

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 1 byte. Single-byte characters (U+0000–U+007F) are identical to ASCII — the high bit is always 0.

Byte 1
0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
7A
UTF-8: 7A · 1 byte · Codepoint U+007A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
Titlecase: U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z

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