Z with stroke

Ƶ (minuscule: ƶ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from Z with the addition of a stroke.

Uses

It was used in the Jaŋalif alphabet (as a part of Uniform Turkic Alphabet) for the Tatar language in the first half of the 20th century to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ], now written j. It was also used in the 1992 Latin Chechen spelling as voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ]. It was also used a 1931 variant of the Karelian alphabet for the Tver dialect.

As handwriting

Polish City Guard (Straż Miejska) badge, using Ƶ with a horizontal stroke as a variant of Ż.

In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter Ż. Germans and Spaniards often use this sign in the hand-writing as the letter Z, as do others.^{[citation needed]}

As currency

Ƶ was sometimes used instead of Z to represent the zaire, a former currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ƶ is used as a currency symbol in the video game EVE Online to represent the in-game currency Interstellar Kredits (ISK).

Also, the popular British TV show Doctor Who uses ƶ as the symbol for the unit of money, Galactic Credits.^{[citation needed]}

In science

Ƶ is also used by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers as a variant of Z in hand-written equations, so as not to confuse the symbol with the numeral 2.

Uses on computers

The Unicode of uppercase Ƶ is 01B5, while the lowercase ƶ is 01B6.

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter Z with diacritics
Źź	Ẑẑ	Žž	Żż	Ẓẓ	Ẕẕ	Ƶƶ	Ȥȥ	Ⱬⱬ	ᵶ	ᶎ	ʐ	ʑ	ɀ
Letters using stroke sign ( ◌̵ )
Ⱥⱥ	Ƀƀ	Ȼȼ	Đđ	Ɇɇ	Ǥǥ	Ꞡꞡ	Ħħ	Ɨ ɨ	Ɉɉ	Ꝁꝁ	Ꞣꞣ	Łł	Ꞥꞥ	Øø	Ᵽᵽ	Ꝗꝗ	Ɍɍ	Ꞧꞧ	Ꞩꞩ	Ŧŧ	Ʉʉ	Ɏɏ	Ƶƶ	Ꝥꝥ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode