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Z with hook (majuscule: Ȥ, minuscule: ȥ) is an additional 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/.
⟨z⟩ and ⟨ȥ⟩ in Schade (1868).
"sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
Italic ⟨z⟩ and ⟨ȥ⟩ (appearing nearly identical to ⟨ʒ⟩) in Paul (1918).
