Is there a mark down to make one or more slanted characters of a word?

Question

I want to write TikZ but with a slanted k. Is there a mark down to do so?

You might have known that typing Ti*k*Z does NOT produce the expected result.

Answer 1

In Q and A posts you can use HTML for this: Ti<i>k</i>Z: TikZ.
But it's not really worth the effort IMHO and will not work for comment and chat messages.