The Unicode standard notes "Middle High German" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the coronalfricative/s/ also transcribed as tailed z⟨ʒ⟩. It is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of ⟨z⟩ pronounced as [s], ⟨ȥ⟩, modern German: ⟨s⟩, from ⟨z⟩ pronounced as /ts/, as is still the case in modern German; the manuscripts typically used ⟨s⟩ to represent /z/.
z and ȥ in Schade (1868).
"sameȥ-, samȥ-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
Italic z and ȥ in Paul (1918).
Computing codes
This letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.