Also known as ẓā’, za, ﻅ
', or ' (), is the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 900 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪜, and South Arabian .
Key facts
- Semitic letter.letname
- Ẓāʾ
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Ḍād
- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Ḍād
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Ghayn
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Ghayn
- Semitic letter.archar
- ظ
- Semitic letter.ipa
- ðˤ, (zˤ, dˤ)
- Semitic letter.num
- 27
- Semitic letter.gem
- 900
- Grapheme.name
- Ẓāʾ ظاء
- Grapheme.letter
- ظ
- Grapheme.script
- Arabic script
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Arabic language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- (standard) , (dialectal)
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 17
- Grapheme.direction
- Right-to-left
- Grapheme.fam2
- 𐤈
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- ﻅ
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''', or (), is the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 900 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪜, and South Arabian .
' does not change its shape depending on its position in the word: