Že
Žayn (ژ) used to represent the phoneme /ʒ/, is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, based on zayn (ز) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the four letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ ,پ and گ.
| Persian alphabet |
|---|
| ا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی |
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Perso Arabic script |
It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish (j in the modern Turkish alphabet), Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic.
In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter ج ǧīm is used for /ʒ/.
| Position in word: | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glyph form: (Help) |
ژ | ـژ | ـژ | ژ |
Character encodings
| Character | ژ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | PERSIAN LETTER JEH | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1688 | U+0698 |
| UTF-8 | 218 152 | DA 98 |
| Numeric character reference | ژ | ژ |
In other scripts
Devanagari
In Devanagari the letter झ़ (jha with a nuqta or dot) is used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. टेलिविझ़न ṭēlivizhan "television". The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic ژ.
Cyrillic
The letter ж, common in some Slavic languages, has an equivalent sound to the "s" in "television" e.g. Zharkov (Russian Cyrillic: Жарков).
See also
- پ - Pe (Perso-Arabic)
- ﭺ - Che (Perso-Arabic)
- ﭪ - Vāʼ / Ve
- گ - Gaf (Perso-Arabic)