"z-variant" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "z (axis) + variant; from the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their general form (abstract shape, e.g. A from a), and the z-axis by their actual shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. a from a).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "z-variants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "z-variant (plural z-variants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Typography",
          "orig": "en:Typography",
          "parents": [
            "Printing",
            "Writing",
            "Industries",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Business",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons."
      ],
      "id": "en-z-variant-en-noun-wNgSzPSy",
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "Unicode",
          "Unicode"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Unicode",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "z-variant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "z-variant"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "z (axis) + variant; from the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their general form (abstract shape, e.g. A from a), and the z-axis by their actual shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. a from a).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "z-variants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "z-variant (plural z-variants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "Unicode",
          "Unicode"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Unicode",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "z-variant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "z-variant"
}