# z vs zhu

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### z
*character · IPA /zɛd/ · frequency rank #3,202*
The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed, zee or izzard and written in the Latin script.

### zhu
*noun · frequency rank #24,964*
An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/z-vs-zhu